Sometimes you have to be knocked down lower than you have ever been to stand back up taller than you ever were.
"I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else."
If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.
The journey of discovery is not a straight path, but a winding road filled with surprises and revelations.