Following My Siblings' Shadows, 1992-2006, by Leonard Reloj

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Who: Leonard Reloj
What: Following My Siblings' Shadows 
When: 1992-present
Where: Kentucky

My family is full of over achievers, but I don't think I fit in very well with my family. Every single one of my three siblings are honor students, academic geeks and were sort of good at sports. I was somehow made differently from my other siblings. School and sports are already tough, but at the same time being compared to to my siblings makes me feel bad and lowers my self esteem.

Academics were my siblings strong points when they were my age. I was doing fine when I was in younger, but when I got a C in 4th because of gym class, my grades went down hill from there. Now my grades are ok compared to my siblings, but I don't think that I will achieve the same things they did.

When I was in 3rd grade I took dozens of tests for some odd reason and later my mom told me that I was suppose to be really smart, but part of my brain was not a developed as the other. That was absolutly terrible. It makes it absolutly more difficult for me to keep up with my siblings.

School is okay now, but I'm not one of my siblings. It seems like I'm adopted and my parents haven't told me yet. I think I have a really bad memory which seperates me from my siblings. I am messy and disorganized. I am also the only left handed one in my family and my siblings would make fun of me for that, but they would also make fun of me for anything else. I don't think that I will ever be like my siblings, but I will try to be as different as I can now.