When I realized how things were, when I said to myself that I am not this thing I’ve been told I have to be, that I am this other thing instead, then Jesus, Ange, the label didn’t feel like a prison, it felt like a whole new freaking map, one that was my own, and now I can take any journey I want to take and it’s possible I might even find a home there. It’s not a reduction. It’s a key.”
Though different, I recall being called a nerd in grade and high school. It was always funny that the top students were also the top athletes at my school. Now a days I embrace the nerd. It’s who I am.
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