KARA “You got everything right. See? I told you you could do it. Just follow the formula, and you should be good.” I cheered on Kian, Clarice’s eldest son, as I returned his notebook after checking on his homework. He had passed by here from school, wearing a distraught expression. It turns out he was struggling to keep up with his math classes. He said he kept getting distracted because his classmates were annoyingly loud. I can’t blame him. It was hard to try to learn in a place where they don’t truly understand your needs. Human children can be really loud and playful. Of course, they don’t understand that one of their classmates has senses stronger than them. It wasn’t their fault, but Clarice told me they have to remind their children ever so often to exercise patience among their

