A number of years ago I bumped into a kid I went to junior high and high school with. I didn't see him that much in high school, but we were in every class together in 8th grade. He had no recollection of me whatsoever. We start talking and he's telling me about things that happened in 8th grade as if they were news to me; I'm like "Yeah, I was there." I was very shy and quiet then, but I used to talk to this kid all the time.

It just proved to me that I was invisible when I was in public school.