I could never be myself in the system. Therefore, people didn’t know me well enough to judge me.

The thing that hurts the most is that people didn’t barely give me a chance before they decided I wasn’t worth knowing. I couldn’t be myself when I was ‘supported’ by the system. Those judgements that others made about me while I was in the system I’m hoping will be reconsidered now. I couldn’t show my full personality then because it’s a repressive environment and I am too much not a stereotype to be able to relax to be myself in that situation.