I couldn’t identify bullies and traitors
amongst teachers and fellow-pupils
until they bullied and betrayed me.
(They were not many,
but they were disheartening.)
Even then,
I didn’t give them as wide a berth as I should have,
thinking that they might 'give over'
if I could (as a boy who could not fight,
but just curled up like a spineless hedgehog ?)
somehow win their favor.
I think that my ‘theory of mind’ must be defective.
Hitler's certainly was.
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