10 Things You Didn’t Know About Michael Brown, According To Family And Friends
He Was a Quiet Kid
In a piece for Esquire last January, Michael Brown Sr. shared with writer John H. Richardson that his son struggled early on to come out of his shell, so he was “very quiet.” When he finally did, he ended up dealing with some comprehension problems and some bullying in school that could have held him back. Thankfully, with some tutoring and the help of Brown Sr., that wasn’t the case:
From the day Michael was born up until he was three, he was very quiet, playing by himself, not interacting with the other kids,” Richardson wrote. “When he was five, he started to open up. School helped at first; he loved kindergarten. But then he had a comprehension issue. He had to read a passage a couple of times over to get it. But they got tutoring and passed through that.”
His size was a problem. Kids teased him, calling him fat, and one day he said he didn’t want to go back to that school.”I told him, ‘They’re just kids that play jokes and don’t know that they’re hurtful jokes at that age. Why don’t you laugh with them?'”
