The Fear of Not Measuring Up

I have had and continue to have a complicated relationship with my brothers - we’re very different, and during our childhoods and adolescence I was often envious of them for their seemingly effortless success in the social and athletic realms, which have always been painful and baffling for me to navigate. I was the more successful in the academic realm, but when I moved up from sixth to seventh grade that also went by the wayside, and during those years academic success lacked social c...