When you're a kid, you might be picked on for your differences. When you're an adult, employers, colleges, friends - people look for differences when you're adult, and that's what makes you shine and stand out.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you're young, it's all about the society of school and being cool, but they don't understand that somebody can be different and live a different lifestyle and still be a regular person. I was the same way when I was a kid.
When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.
I learned by example. ...As a kid you think you are just the same as other adults.
Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same.
Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'different' will pay off sometime after graduation. But no one explains to them why.
You start realising as you get older that there are some kids who don't know who you are.
As you get older, you look at things differently.
No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.
As you get older, you kind of take on things and become kind of different than what you used to be as a kid, obviously.
Kids - in a really good way - can talk about their differences without the baggage that adults have.