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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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 never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.
Like most people, I have painful memories of trying to fit in as a child. I wore, said, and did pretty much what everyone else did.
Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.
When I was growing up, I always wanted to be somebody else and live somewhere else. I've always felt a little uncomfortable around people.
As a teenager, I didn't want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.
I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.
I never fit in as a kid. I always felt that there was something different about me.
I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.