In a middle school biology class, boys assault your nose, girls whisper behind you, nails tapping on a glass screen, a teacher pointlessly calls for your attention, and on the board is a picture of your brain. There are seven sections of your brain: three parts, two hemispheres. It's pink, slimy, moist. Science tells us that neural impulses, hormones, and chemicals make us feel. Our mothers tell us it's our heart. Our therapist tells us it’s a disorder. We tell ourselves…

This bathroom was the kind of bathroom that reminds you of high school movies. The ones where drugs are done, suicides occur, and...