I was watching Modern Family (Episode 18) when Mitchell was talking to his younger step-brother Manny, who wasn't invited to a big party because the kids at school he thought were his friends thought that he was weird. And Mitchell, being gay all his life, said, "I used to get picked on in school. And they'd call me weird. Well I was weird.. Fun weird. But this is the funny thing about growing up, for years and years everybody's desperately afraid to be different, you know, in any way. And then, suddenly, almost overnight, everyone wants to be different. And that's where WE win."
And I guess I can't blame him for saying that. When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong; they taught me different was wrong. But in growing up I've realised that I am not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. Nobody's perfect, and I think when you’re an adult you start to like the very things that make you different. And when you start obsessing about some defect, you make it become obvious to everyone, and then suddenly everyone is staring only at that defect. It has always been like that. The more you hide something, the more it will show. But when you accept your defect, all of a sudden no one on earth sees it anymore.
