nts of childhood are given a strong dose of humor as when he says that instead of the sign over the speech room door reading “Speech Therapy Lab”, it should have read “Future Homosexuals of America” (Sedaris 10).
We see in these essays how personal inadequacies can be internalized by young adults because of the influence of others in their environment. For example, in Giant Dreams, Midget Abilities Sedaris writes of his guitar lessons and reveals that his teacher was aware of his pupil’s rather common abilities “He seemed to know that I was nothing special, just a type, yet anoth
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