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Everybody wanted something from me, and some days it felt like I was being pulled in thirty different directions, and I wondered how anyone figured out how to be all things to all people without going insane.
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And I think, What’s the opposite of suffocation?
Bill Konigsberg
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Actually, tolerance and acceptance are different. To tolerate seems to mean that there is something negative to tolerate, doesn't it?
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Man, I could get used to this thing where I don’t think I’m a total piece of shit all the time.
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Wow. Did I just write that? I didn't want who I am to come between us? How could I not have seen that?
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It's funny because it's true, and also it's the kind of humor that makes you think.
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And it's hard to express the truth when the world wants you to be someone else.
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I had the strong sensation that I'd underestimated my parents and their devotion to me. Of course they'd be on my side, whether they understood or not. That was just the kind of parents they were.
Bill Konigsberg
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Just smile, Max. The paint cannot be stronger than a smile. But it is.
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A thought came to me. What do I think about the date with Rafe? Here I am thinking about what everyone else would think, and I haven’t taken even a second to have my own reaction. Weird.
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It’s not, like, denial? In the GSA we joke that bi guys are just gay guys who aren’t ready to admit it yet.
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The world will make you vulnerable. If you're acting like you're not, that's what you're doing.
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I think some people are bi, definitely.
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He said he was scared they’d lock him up. That’s his biggest fear.
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Acceptance is an affirmation that you’re good enough.
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I knew that she was right, obviously. But part of me didn't want to. I wanted to have someone to call my own so badly that I just couldn't let it go.
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No one had really been looking at me all the time. Other than me.
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