I am on this mad mission to capture the
essence of peculiar children the world over!!!
Why?
Because I feel there is great power in being
distinctive, different from the usual or normal, special,
particular, odd, curious, eccentric, and queer. This summer I am reading Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar
Children & Quiet: The Power of Introverts In a World
That Can't Stop Talking
In an excerpt from the latter:
But we
make a grave mistake to embrace the Extrovert Ideal so unthinkingly. Some of
our greatest ideas, art, and inventions—from the theory of evolution to van
Goghʼs sunflowers to the personal computer— came from quiet and cerebral people who
knew how to tune in to their inner worlds and the treasures to be found there.
In a
family of TYPE A's I battle constantly with being 'misunderstood' and I've
exhausted myself for decades trying to fit into the great American
"Extrovert Ideal"
What
about us, the peculiar, makes the extrovert so uncomfortable??????
I think
we need to treasure kids that don't fit the 'ideal' by immortalizing them in
picture books & early readers.
WHERE
ARE THE 21ST CENTURY PIPPY LONGSTOCKINGS???????
