Embrace Your Differences Like Superman!
Have you ever been made fun of for being different?
I have so many times! When I was in Elementry school I would be picked on so badly I would pretend to be sick.
There were days I would come home from school crying and begging my mom not to send me. I was completely different from all the other outgoing kids.
All I wanted to do was go to school and come home to my disabled mother so we could watch sci-fi and fantasy shows, our only way of bonding. That was my 7-12-year-olds way of escaping of the reality that I was the caretaker of a disabled, drug abuser of a mother, who would wake me up to clean up her accidents at 3 am in the morning.
It wasn’t until I got older that I realized that hiding from my differences was something I shouldn’t have done. I should have embraced all of myself whether others understood me or not! My passion for the geek culture was something to be cherished and embraced not feel ashamed of! Now I’m even able to help people with it!
Take Clark Kent. As a kid, his parents sheltered him from his differences as much as possible! In some cases smothering him from being finding himself so others wouldn’t find out about him. He had to pretend to be what he wasn’t and was often picked on for it! But once he realized how amazing his differences could be, Clark flew into his destiny, Superman!
I have so many times! When I was in Elementry school I would be picked on so badly I would pretend to be sick.
There were days I would come home from school crying and begging my mom not to send me. I was completely different from all the other outgoing kids.
All I wanted to do was go to school and come home to my disabled mother so we could watch sci-fi and fantasy shows, our only way of bonding. That was my 7-12-year-olds way of escaping of the reality that I was the caretaker of a disabled, drug abuser of a mother, who would wake me up to clean up her accidents at 3 am in the morning.
It wasn’t until I got older that I realized that hiding from my differences was something I shouldn’t have done. I should have embraced all of myself whether others understood me or not! My passion for the geek culture was something to be cherished and embraced not feel ashamed of! Now I’m even able to help people with it!
Take Clark Kent. As a kid, his parents sheltered him from his differences as much as possible! In some cases smothering him from being finding himself so others wouldn’t find out about him. He had to pretend to be what he wasn’t and was often picked on for it! But once he realized how amazing his differences could be, Clark flew into his destiny, Superman!
Do you let other's opinions of who you keep you from being your true self?
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