If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.
My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.
I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
I love physicality. I love movement very much.
As for the fake teeth, they're officially retired. I haven't really found a need or want to wear them.
My family is first-generation Nigerian, and we grew up in a very small, suburban town in New England, Massachusetts. So I do understand what it feels like to be an 'only' in that regard.
