Find someone who enjoys your weirdness:

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Find someone who enjoys your weirdness.

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Your quirks.

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Your unique tendencies.

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Find a person who loves that about you.

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Stop trying to be normal.

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Stop trying to be someone other people expect you to be.

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Don’t try to be someone you’re not.

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Be you.

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Be authentically you.

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Be you always and in all ways.

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We’re taught from a young age to conform.

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To follow the rules.

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To always listen to what the teacher says.

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We tend to copy our friends.

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Copy what the people around us are doing.

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Or what they like.

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Vividly remember in school not wanting my parents to pack Indian food in my lunchbox.

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I’d rather get a lunchable or dunkaroo.

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Why?

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To make myself look normal around other kids.

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To be like them.

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As I’ve gotten older, I’ve learned that was the wrong way to think about it.

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You need to be proud of who you are.

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Be proud of your heritage.

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Be proud that you’re different.

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Had this conversation with a few people recently.

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When we were kids, all we wanted to do was fit in.

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Make decisions based on what we thought would make us part of the group.

Was reminded of that watching Inside Out 2.

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Great movie btw, highly recommend watching it.

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All Riley is trying to do is fit in with the cool kids.

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As a result, her emotions are all over the place.

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She can’t keep it together.

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Part of that is conforming.

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Part of that is being a normal teenager where you’re just trying to fit in.

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We all go through it.

The need to feel involved.

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The need to feel included.

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The need to feel normal.

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Just like the people around us.

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Newsflash.

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No one is normal.

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Far from it.

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All of us have weird families.

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All of us have problems in our house.

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Every person you see struggles with the same problems you do.

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Health issues.

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Relationship issues.

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Friends who don’t speak to them.

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Problems with their kids.

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All of it.

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But that means we’re all unique.

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We’re all a 1 of 1.

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No two people are alike.

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Even twins who share most of their DNA.

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They’re not the same.

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We’re all original.

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We’re all distinct.

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We’re all weird.

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Embrace your weirdness.

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It makes you who you are.

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The key is finding someone who appreciates that.

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Who likes the real you.

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The weird you.

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That’s when you know you’ve found someone.

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Find someone who enjoys your weirdness.

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