Topic is so relevant to my feelings today. It seems like we all kind of had ideas that we were very different from a young age, but many of us had to wait for the internet or some other major life event to finally figure it out.
I was definitely the typical loner who did not have many friends; puberty was rough because that was when my differences really became apparent. Puberty found me getting highly emotionally attached to boys and attempting to form male-female bonds with them; most boys found this to be really weird and so they labelled me as an outcast. The girls were just as bad because to them, I was "just a boy" who was only interested in getting in their pants, even though I genuinely craved the close friendships they all had with one another. The boys in my high school simply did not share that desire at all.
We are all misfits, but I'd rather be the one unique piece that holds the puzzle together than just a simple edge piece like all the others. The world needs us right now more than ever.
-Ana
