MEMOIR

I’m As Surprised as Anybody at How I Turned Out

This is my origin story

Me, sitting in my home office. (Photo by Michelle Teheux)

I don’t think anybody who saw me when I was a kid would have ever imagined I’d turn out this way.

“You’re off in your own little world,” the adults around me frequently said, and they didn’t mean it in a good way. I was very quiet, shy and socially awkward. If I’d been born a few…