getting over it

...a little girl asked me that last week. I didn't know what to say. So I told her:

"everybody has a different brain to everyone else. No brain is exactly like another one, not only because they don't grow the same, but also because nobody sees the world exactly the way you do. Nobody lives your life for you, and nobody has all of the memories you have. That makes your brain special."

I don't think she'd ever been told that. I guess people don't tell intellectually disabled girls the same things they tell the others. She liked me for the rest of the time I was there, and told everyone else to "go talk a long walk off a short bridge". I'm thinking she meant a pier? Or perhaps a cliff? hm...