"Awkwardness is when there's a risk of a perception gap between what you mean and what you appear to mean."

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I'm often in conversations with people who have learning disabilities, and they talk about how they were teased and perhaps laughed at sometimes as children. That was never the case with me. Maybe it was something about my personality, my temperament, but I don't ever remember being teased. I remember the awkwardness of leaving class to go to a special class, but that's all.

— Jerry Pinkney