You could say I'm like everyone else, but you'd be wrong. I'm good at sports and I'm smart enough to get good grades. I get along with my parents. I date this really cute guy who loves me with all of my flaws, especially the ones that only he knows about. My life seems pretty perfect, but there's something that makes me very different.
I'm Jean Grey, a mutant who can read minds and use telekinesis. Other than that, you might think that I was the perfect student. Because of this power, I'm given special training to control my gift and I help other people do things with their own powers. I teach missions that help people use their powers together and I always help people get better, no matter what I'm doing or who I'm doing it with.
Call it tutoring if you want to, but I think it's completely different than being just a normal tutor. After all, you don't have to worry about someone accidentally burning you with a stray fireball when you're teaching someone math.
I'd love to be one of those normal people who aren't mutants. Then, I wouldn't have the world turned against me and people wouldn't constantly make fun of my friends and housemates. My powers wouldn't always have to be checked and used to make sure they weren't progressing too rapidly. I could actually keep my trophies for things I didn't use my powers for. People would believe that I'm as good at sports as I am, especially since I don't use my powers to score points.
I guess other people would love to have the abilities I do, though. Who wouldn't want to fly or to read minds? It's like a superhero dream come true, but they probably wouldn't imagine all the tough things that come with it. They don't have to get up early for training sessions in the danger room or deal with finding out that their best friends hate parts of them that those friends say they love just because control was lost for a moment.
Of course, there are plenty of tough things to being human, too. You have to actually touch the things you lift and you have to do everything by hand instead of just reading someone's mind to get answers for things, not that I'd ever do something like that. I mean, that's cheating!
Thinking about it, I guess humans and mutants have a lot in common after all. We both want to be each other and we both have our strengths and weaknesses. No one is perfect, after all, even me. In fact, I'm pretty far from perfect and I'm totally happy with it all.
I guess I might be more like everyone else than I thought. The problem is, no one else knows that.