How I view the World

     I was failing kindergarten, which I’m still unclear on how that’s even possible, but apparently “they” thought I might have had a learning disability because I couldn’t cut with scissors or some such nonsense.  So “they” sent me to a psychologist to be tested.  

     I remember being intrigued with her beehive hairdo (this was in the 70’s) and irritated by her line of questioning.  At one point, she asked me, “What color is a banana?”.  To which I promptly replied, “White”.  She leaned toward me, peered over her cat eye glasses and triumphantly declared, “No. A banana is yellow”!  Not to be outdone, I stood up and placed my hands on my hips and said, “No ma’am, a banana is white, the peel is yellow!”. 

         That is how I view the world; I look below the peel.  I engage with life by seeing statistical probabilities and analyzing the algorithms of everything around me.  I’ve always had an intrinsic fascination with the study of human behavior and I’d like to say that’s what led me to get my doctorate in psychology.  The truth is, I pursued my degree simply because I had a high school teacher tell me that I would “never make it in college”.  So… I went to college and upped the ante by earning a doctorate before my 10 year high school reunion JUST to prove to her that I could.