One of the things I worked very hard on all my life was to be like everyone else. I tried very hard to fit in.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Everything about my life seemed so perfect to people. But I struggle like everyone else.
Like so many kids, I just wanted to fit in, and I see now that I spent most of my life trying to be what I wasn't, trying to get people to like me.
I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.
In all kinds of ways, I used to be really, really hard on myself.
I've worked hard all my life.
I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.
There's so many parts of my life that I've struggled with - that so many millions of others struggled with - about being an outsider, about feeling ugly, about having to overcome looking different to other people.
I never fit in as a kid. I always felt that there was something different about me.
To be the best, I had to work harder than everyone else.
I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.