Um, and how about, you know, I get, I guess, your perception of that from being a child now to being an adult?

Yeah, I, I...

Actually, that's part of the reason I wrote my book in the first place, was for people to start to understand, um, how incredibly difficult it was as somebody with as many sensory challenges as I have to grow up in a city like New York, and the difference it has made in the quality of my life to remove myself from that situation, right? Um, when we...

You know, we're sort of born where we are, and that's, you know, our parents' choice, and we don't have a lot of choice in where we start out.

Um, but, you know, a lot of parents as we're growing up will notice that their kids are not doing great in whatever environment they're in, and may choose to move them along.

That was not the opportunity that I had.

I didn't have the privilege of growing up with a family that had the finances to do that or any of those things.

Mm-hmm.