Doing well in school was not about figuring out a career or figuring out my path in life. Doing well in school was just a short-term thing of I’m going to be better than you. Once again, like the drawing, it was a way I wanted people to see me as maybe the smartest kid in school and not that deaf girl that is in class with me. And so I wasn’t at all thinking about what am I going to do when I grow up.
I get to college, still had no idea. And so I really have no idea what I would be doing. I would — I can’t even see myself as a teacher because I get so flustered so easily. Maybe a fry cook. I mean I like to cook, something like that. But I really — this is the only possible outcome for me, and I think I would continue to pursue it relentlessly if I, you know, if I was a fry cook, I would be a fry cook who goes home at night and draws and tries to get into children’s books. I would have never given up on that.
