I’m talking about the painful desire to fit in but, because you really can’t, there’s a struggle to be free by the part of you that just wants the chance to be itself. I wrote about it many years ago and so little has changed outside of my own feelings as I fight my way out of “the box”. Some all powerful being who, through the concept of ‘they’, squashes individual thinking because it might spread and compromise the docility of the herd? I forced it on myself and even though at the beginning I felt utterly ridiculous, after a while a sort of numbness set in. I ignored all the comments and stares and for a window of time, part of me was so free. And even as I fear that I might never wear it, a smug part of me knows that that cape has it coming.

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