[She gets that sense. But what else is there? Well - there is always anger. Anger helps.]
It's terrible being the only one who knows how to do anything right, isn't it? And it's worst when you're the only one who knows what to do with you!
[She has a smidgen of experience in these matters, young as she is, so her anger is genuine. But his diagnosis, if that is what it is, makes her deflate slightly again.] It isn't different if it just doesn't work. That's what defective means exactly. But numbers are fine. [And then she brightens, as though sharing the best secret in the world.] And Chinese is fine, maybe. I can read and write forty whole words in Chinese!
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It's terrible being the only one who knows how to do anything right, isn't it? And it's worst when you're the only one who knows what to do with you!
[She has a smidgen of experience in these matters, young as she is, so her anger is genuine. But his diagnosis, if that is what it is, makes her deflate slightly again.] It isn't different if it just doesn't work. That's what defective means exactly. But numbers are fine. [And then she brightens, as though sharing the best secret in the world.] And Chinese is fine, maybe. I can read and write forty whole words in Chinese!