Chapter 12: Growing with a Smaller Brain

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One day my father said my brain had not grown properly.
My mom said I didn’t have enough IQ to study what I asked for.
My sister teased me as if my ideas and my interests were not my own.
At that time, I had self-confidence in myself.
I believed I could do it.
But later, it faded away; I got to know that it was true.
My prefrontal cortex is small; it has not grown properly.
And it is known as ADHD.

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