The Lost Prodigy Syndrome

Every brilliant girl who failed to launch knows this feeling:

You can see the heights.

You can see the potential.

But your body refuses to move.

My mind could diagnose medical cases better than my physicians.

I could understand endocrine pathways and write code in the same afternoon.

But I couldn’t get up to fold the darn laundry.

People said, “She’s wasting her talent.”

He said,

“You’re not done. You’re interrupted.”

That sentence has kept me alive more times than I can count.