Intellectually Kidnapped/Raped

It started
by being
bored
in the classroom

Purposely
Provided
wrong answers
to the teacher
In order
to get attention

Before
I knew what
was happening
I was sent
to the 
School Psychologist
and given a 
series of tests

Being in second grade
I thought
the whole thing
was a joke
I recall 
the tests
I were given
were so simple
that I
rebelliously 
reacted 
by 
intentionally
giving
the worst answers
I could
think of

Surely someone
would
realize that
I was just
acting up

No one caught
on
The weeks passed
and one day
the teacher in my
class threw
a party
on my behalf
announcing
to my peers
that I would
be leaving
and transferring
to a school 
for "Slow Children"  ( Exact Words Spoken)
my consolation prize
was  a pink cupcake.....

At 7 years old
Walking into
Buford Academy
My first day
I remember
feeling
as though
I was "fresh meat"
to be butchered
at the slaughterhouse 

The Children at
the Academy
not only had severe
learning disbilities
many also had acute
emotional behavior
issues

Children
of all
ages (6 to 17)
were 
lumped 
together
in one
class

For the next
3 years
I heard cries
and wittnessed
the weaker
children
being sexually/ physically
abused
by the older
children

At 10
My parents
had a clinical
Pyschologist
test
me
Many tests
were
conducted
the results
showed
that though
I had a slight
hand and eye 
coordination
disability
My IQ was
132 
Intellectually
I was superior
than most.....
Yet my parents
with held this
information
as the guilt
had set in
to what they
had
allowed to happen ( was told this years later).

My parents
re enrolled
me into regular
school
but I was
required to go
back a grade
because
of the time
I lost 
at Buford

Up until I finished
High School
intellectually
I felt insecure
Teachers
were the devils
to me
and learning
was so ever
boring
I did not try
because
nothing
great was expected
of me

Somehow
Some way
I entered University
and then
The lie I was
living
was one day
discovered
by a  professor
who would not
accept
that I was
incapable
of being
great

I began to thrive
as an Intellectual
and after reviewing
my past,
Dr. Balone
informed me
that the problem
educators
had with me
when I young
was not
that I was intellectually
inferior
rather it was
the educators
that
were the ones
not intelligient
enough
to understand

One Bachelor 
and 2 Masters degrees Later ( One From an Ivy league University)
I agree
Yet
I still do not
like pink cupcakes.......