"I learnt to face hate very early on.

I often asked myself what brought people to hate me and hurt me. Perhaps my sensibility and the fact I was different made me an easy target, perhaps my fragility and my lack of reaction made insults funnier and maybe “justified”.

I don’t know if I was lucky to meet this kind of pain so early on in my life, but I’m sure it gave strength and the ability to not care about other people judgments and thoughts, therefore find real happiness.

I can say I was lucky, bullying and hatred did not completely suffocate me."