Darryl Baker:  

You know what has bothered me for a very long time is I attended the 5 year reunion and some ass brought up my "Senior Superlative" of "Most Absent" which was true. But when I rose to say I finally has an explanation I was shouted down like a heckler. I never went to any more reunions. These are the kinds of things that I have avoided discussing publicly but here I go. As it turns out I had 2 diagnosed conditions the first being asthma. Which did not present in the classic form of wheezing but as lung congestion and coughing up mucus. Any of my teammates from track would remember from any distance run over a mile and a half. What do you do when you have a productive cough you stay home. The second was not something that was diagnosed often back then anxiety and depression. Depression makes getting out of bed to go to school a insurmountable effort. The anxiety was often expressed as anger and those out bursts I wo...Expand for more