At School...

At school, the children of alcoholics generally fall into two categories, they're either over-achievers who are very responsible, or they are underachieving troublemakers. I was more of an overachieving troublemaker. I think that my reactions to my parents' problems was brought out in the form of causing trouble at school, and that I was just intelligent enough to get good grades, anyway. But, I got into fights at school and with my friends; I lost my temper and threw tantrums, and had a myriad of trouble, especially between first grade, when we moved from Kansas to Minnesota, and until fifth grade. My sixth grade teacher took a different approach with me, and achieved better results. The only thing I did that year that even remotely resembled a tantrum was kick Lenny Hubers in the knee. Unfortunately, Lenny Hubers passed away when we were in high school, not because of anything to do with me, though.