Disclaimers: They are not my characters.
You know most people look at you and see some hot looking guy that was in the back of the queue when they were handing out brains. The few friends that you used to have pitied you as they didn't think you measured up to there idea of intelligence. Your own father views you as a well gifted solider but someone who lucked out when it came to intelligence. Your brother is forever reminding you that he made it to college and you never graduated high school. Missouri is a family friend you have never liked she just views you as Sam's guard dog. A guard dog that has only enough intelligence to get by in the world.
Bobby the old family friend that you view as a second father knows the truth.
Bobby knows that you graduated high school when you were just 14 years old. He was at the graduation ceremony. A graduation ceremony that you had mentioned to your father but your father had passed it of as another detention and he didn't want to know. Bobby was there to see you graduated high school four years early. Bobby is there when you accepted into several different universities. He is the one who tries to talk you out of doing three degrees at the same time. Naturally, you ignore him and do all three degrees even though it pushes you to breaking point.
It takes four years though online courses, assignments and exams that you actually manage to sit in person but you get honors in all three degrees. Degrees that Bobby keeps as you have no real need for them. Bobby encourages you to tell your father and Sam about all that you have achieved but you choose to remain silent. For you the degrees were just to see if you could push yourself that far and hard. You passed your own test. You have honors degrees in Computer Science, Marketing and Information Technology. You have been head hunted for jobs by Americas leading business corporations but you don't share that information with anyone other than bobby.
Years later after your dad is dead and Sam has tired to kill you for the second time Bobby asks you why you never told anyone about graduating early, the three degrees you have or the job offers that most people would give there eye teeth for.
You smile and tell Bobby that it is easier to let people believe what they want then tell them a truth they would never believe.