Another school year, another invitation to a parent/teacher information meeting. The usual anodyne presentations of goals in Swedish and maths, and exhortations to read at home, etc.

Before the meeting we were invited to try and pick out our children’s self-portraits from a wall of unlabelled pictures. I went through all the drawings that I thought could possibly be Adrian’s, and then started over and went through the ones I really didn’t think were his and actually looked at the names on the reverse of each piece of paper, before I found it. Rather surprised to see that his drawing of human anatomy was on the level of a five-year-old, I mentioned this to the teacher. She then told me that Adrian had spent 15+ of their allotted 20 minutes on the Lego piece (drawn in isometric projection) and the PlayStation controller (in color and great detail) and only scribbled in a rough human figure when the teacher reminded him of the actual task. I guess he just didn’t find his body as interesting as his mind.