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I have 2 things to say in response to what I’ve read so far. First, I am extremely self conscious for many of the reasons that you all are. I was ridiculed in school for being different and my family was overprotective, among other things. It took me a long time to realize how angry and self deprecating I was, but I eventually did, and went to therapy. I am still quite self conscious, but it is no longer debilitating like it used to be.
The other thing is in response to the often abused platitude, “Just be yourself.” You hear it in songs and commercials and Saturday morning cartoons, but I find that the people who say it aren’t ever in any real social danger when they claim it. Try telling that to a transvestite, and see how far he runs with it.
All I really ask is that people stop abusing this phrase. Its meaningless unless they actually apply it meaningfully, and I wish they would.
