Editing Baryn Myr (section)

==Education==
Baryn’s early education was mostly conducted in special schools, designed to meet the needs of children whose telepathic abilities manifested early. His teachers and his family accepted him as he was, but as is the case with children in many cultures who function outside societal norms, he experienced the restrained prejudice that mainstream society held against him. The part he hated the most was the well-meant pity he sensed in many of those he encountered. To deal with this, he developed a reserved, guarded interaction style, associating freely an openly only with those who he knew well, and excelled in his studies. 

Many times during his school years, Baryn participated as an assistant teacher in special counseling and developmental programs designed for the telepathically gifted. He learned, and taught, a wide variety of advanced techniques for managing and enhancing telepathy; how to limit the bombardment of sensation that so troubled children like himself; and general coping skills for dealing with challenges not common to one’s culture. 

Baryn had hoped to find less prejudice and greater acceptance at the University, but he was sorely disappointed. He was no longer that poor little boy who had to go to special schools… now he was some sort of dark power, of which those he would have become friends with were clearly afraid. There, he saw the hidden underside of the legendary friendliness of [[Betazoid]] culture, as he was treated with the suspicion typically held toward any sentient being that they could not easily understand. He kept to himself and graduated with honors, but he was off to the Academy the very day after graduation, much to his mother’s sorrow.