Don’t Listen To People Who Say You’re “Too Much”
Dispatches from a life where people tried to shield my shine.
6 min readMay 17, 2024
Growing up, people told me I was too much. Unexpected turbulence. A pocket of rough air you had to plow your way through. Would you mind dialing it down a notch, a hair? A little lower, Felicia. Not quite, almost there. So a scream became a squeak became a whisper became a…
