What it means to be a Wyrd Mom
Hello readers! I am the single mom of a wonderful 6-year-old boy. I am a smiley, optimistic parent and my positive outlook and inquisitive nature have helped me fit in with groups and social circles everywhere I have lived. However, even when I've fit in, I've always felt a little weird, a bit different. I'd like to say I felt like anthropologist living among natives but alien living on a different planet might be more accurate. I've lived in dozens of places, in different countries, on different continents and everywhere I went I felt "I'm not from around here" until I moved to New York City. Wired to think differently, I was diagnosed as gifted as a child. In my teens I found comfort to learn that some of my weirdness could be explained away by theories of high IQ feelings of alienation. Relationships : In my twenties and thirties, when even my most intelligent friends went on to build lasting romantic relationships and traditional m