A story, huh? [Can she do that without it being something morbid?]
Once upon a time in a land far, far away... [Now what?] There was a girl who never took the time to be a little kid. She was always busy with something. She'd spend hours in dance class and practicing at home. And she was one of those annoying overachievers in class who didn't even really have to try, so she kept getting pushed up grade levels so they could get more effort out of her. She also had this thing for technology. Always taking appliances from around the house and pulling them apart and putting them back together. Sometimes in new and exciting ways. The toaster was better when she was done with it even if her Dad didn't agree. She never did take swimming lessons though and that seems like it was probably a pretty big oversight, but she still knew how to swim at least.
She didn't really fit in with the kids her age. She tried, but differences can scare people. And after awhile you just stop trying... [She's quiet a moment. Reflective, but that's no where to stop a story.]
Time passed and she had new differences to worry about. But this time there were other people like her because of those differences and she started having friends.
Eventually, she got older and met more people in a very, very weird place and she kind of had to relearn everything that had helped her up until then because they weren't always the best lessons. But she started to and she made some very, very weird and different friends who she is very, very glad to have.
Friends who have no one to blame for that story but themselves for asking for it. Also, there was a camel because stories with camels are just better.