There are five things I would like to say to myself at eighteen years old.

1. Don’t feel ashamed of who you are
2. You are not crazy, worthless, deviant, insignificant or hopeless
3. No matter how hard you try, no matter what you do, there is nothing that will ever make you a man
4. You can’t hide from this it will always be there. You will never out run it
5. Don’t be the person others expect you to be, just be you