“The reason why people are funny is usually not funny at all.” I don’t know where that quote’s from but it fits. I had acquired a set of skills to help me navigate the world around me. I became a natural choice for school plays, after-school theater programs, whatever—because my life was one big performance anyway, a highly crafted show to keep people’s eyes where I wanted them to go. I also really liked performing. Of course, eventually, I’d have to face this aversion to actually being myself instead of this character I had created, but that would come so much later.
