It's ridiculous that they wouldn't let you move ahead two years! Though I suppose that if they had, you would have differed from your peers in both intelligence and age... It's too bad that you couldn't have gone to a magnet school for gifted students. What are you getting your PhD in?

I'm glad that your social life has sorted out over time. I differ from my peers in so many respects that I don't think mine ever will. But I have set a goal to be *less* lonely. Maybe I can at least achieve that. And maybe it will be enough.

Hilarious and sad. But as you said, it's probably for the best. Most boys that age are idiots anyway; they just want sex.