It should be noted that different people had different perspective about the author but they didn't see him as being D. Smart.
In the story, the author stated about the challenges that people who had disabilities struggle with.
The way that others saw the author while he was growing up was that he was a poor Native American kid, fatherless, and brain-damaged. No one thought that he was smart.
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