My Family Watched Me Become My Full Self Without Even Realizing It

They saw the young mom with the baby on her hip.

They did not see the silent equations running in the background,

the strategic overhaul I was architecting in real time,

the future I was coding with instinct rather than algorithms.

Genius doesn’t always look like a lab coat.

Sometimes it looks like a 20-year-old buying a house in a collapsed market while packing a stroller into an SUV.

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