I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older.
When I was born, I always knew something was a little bit different about me.
I was always the tallest girl in my class, and it made me have really bad posture because I wanted to seem shorter than I really was. It really reflected how I felt about myself. I spent most of my youth in school feeling really insecure about the way I looked because I was different.
I had a very difficult upbringing.
I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.
I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.
I had a relatively tumultuous childhood.
What was I like as a kid? The same as I am now, just smaller with a higher voice.
Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.
I had some difficult times when I first moved to Los Angeles when people would tell me I was saying things wrong. I felt different although my mum kept reminding me it was OK to be different.
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