I’ve never been like others. My parents often asked “who are you?” “ where did you come from?” I knew that i was different. I had no one that could really listen. I read encyclopedias and found i wasn’t fully alone. I found people similar to me in those pages. So i tried to hold on to my spirit until i found my people. Then it got too hard. I was then an adult. I had to assimilate to survive. It almost killed me. Trying to be what others wanted when it wasn’t me... made it wo