I am someone who has gone through life on a very colourful path.

[babe@glitterkitten.co.uk]

I am someone who has gone through life on a very colourful path. The kind of person who's viewed as 'eccentric' until it's mentioned I'm an artist, and it gets followed up with a knowing "ahhh" like it suddenly makes sense.

I am exactly the kind of person people try to make smaller, quieter.

"You're too much" is one of few things that bothers me, because it seems like such a small comment but it's rarely just the one.

[babe@glitterkitten.co.uk]

It's a backdrop of comments, people trying to just chip away at esteem, expression, creativity and even just fun, and very often they don't realise the cumulative effect it has.

I used to put conscious effort into trying to fit into a mould of what 'Normal' looks like, and to do it meant stripping away so much so what makes me me. It was living for other people's comfort, not my happiness, and that is just not me anymore.

Don't let people chip that away at the bits of you that bring you joy.