On Loneliness and Likeability
<p>Content warning: anti-Asian racism, white supremacy, trauma, misogyny</p>
<p>I’m trying to think of a time in my life where I ever felt safe enough to be myself.</p>
<p>It wasn’t when I was a child. I grew up in a household with parents who were only a few years removed from starvation and mass murder. And I learned what a landmine was along with my numbers and ABCs. None of my problems ever felt large enough to mention.</p>
<p>It wasn’t when I was in grade school, when kids called me chink and made something of my Asian-ness almost every day I attended from first through eighth grade. The bus ride every morning and afternoon were my twice daily fifteen minutes of shame.</p>
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