From the age of five, I was organizing everybody's everything. If I didn't like the way it looked, I'd rearrange it. From a very early age, I saw life from my point of view.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think.
I think growing up in such a small town - before cell phones, before the Internet, before Facebook, before we had access to people's interiors - there was a great deal of space between people's lives. I spent a lot of time imagining into the lives of the people I grew up with.
When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.
I had a very supportive family environment that gave me room to explore and discover things about myself.
My life at the moment is a bit like my wardrobe. Organized chaos.
I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did.
Just watching TV as a kid, for a long time I thought, as a young kid, obviously when I was, like, 4 or 5, I thought that people lived in the television.
Even as a kid, I saw the world in my own way and thought most things that were different were beautiful and magical. Even things that other people thought were horrifying and disgusting and weird.
I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
I had a relatively tumultuous childhood.
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