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I loved this reply! :) I'm a future language arts / foreign language teacher. I just wanted to let you know that you're awesome. I'm sure your students really appreciate that you actually care about their background rather than dismissing their experience and culture.

Thank you for replying! :)

I taught in the US for a year, too, and that was one of the things that absolutely baffled me.

I can't believe you were able to motivate yourself to stay in school with everything that was going on in your life. I don't think I would have been able to muster that kind of strength. You're an extraordinary person.

Hi! I just wanted to say thank you for doing this AMA. I'm hoping I'll be able to adopt an older child once I'm a 'real' grown-up, so getting your perspective on what it was like for you growing up in the system is really great.

Are there any long-lasting effects of having grown up this way that still bother you? You seem to have a really positive attitude but since your experience is so vastly different from that of e.g. most of the people you'd meet at college, are there situation when you just feel like you're reacting in a way that sets you apart? And do you think that's a bad thing?

Okay, three things:

1. I sort of need to confess my undying love for you and the breakfast machine and

2. How long does it take the average American to figure out you're not a native speaker? How can they tell?

3. What's your favorite word?