My Journey from Bad Student to Lover of Learning

The Wild Word magazine
5 min readOct 1, 2021

By Tim Clark — HEAD ABOVE WATER

“They are not demons, not devils…
Worse than that.
They are people.” [1]

I was a gifted child. Not in the traditional way. Brutal intellect was beneath me. My gift was an odd installation of a minor, focused clairvoyance. I could see the power flow through the chain of…

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