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Some people still see me as a kid, but I'm a 23-year-old woman now.

I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed.

I see that people now recognize me in the street. But it doesn't change me in the depth of my being.

When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.

I get very uncomfortable with people watching me.

Even when the attention focused on me is positive, I am uncomfortable being looked at by a lot of people - it's just not my natural state of being.

You don't see yourself in the same way other people see you.

I don't really care what other people see me as. I seriously don't. I've always worried about what my opinion of myself is. And I've always thought that it carries most weight. So I don't care what other people's opinion of me is or how they view whatever I've said or done.

From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.