Here’s a funny story that I read recently in Atlantic magazine: it’s a bit tongue and cheek, but ultimately, it’s about being put in a box, about being assumed to be one way when you really aren’t, and about how we should be careful not the underestimate those red triangle. The author of the piece, Mark Bowden, emerged from what he called “the dumb kid’s class” to write BlackHawk Down, a finalist for the U.S. National Book Award in 1999.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/06/dumb-kids-8217-class/8981/