B402, As janice suggested, how would you feel listening to you if you were in the author's shoes at age 13.
Oh, sorry it's not about how the child feels. It's about you, unable or unwilling
or both to feel any empathy for the unhappiness the author at age 13 felt.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”