societalnorms

It sounds so obvious when they say in those Disney Channel specials, “There’s no one else like you- be yourself!” People hear the words and they’re thinking ‘duh’, but it runs so much deeper than that. Like many other things, ‘just be yourself’ is easier said than done. The problem is that those Disney specials frame being yourself as such a passive act, but it’s not… It’s a fight- a fight to break out of the confines that you’ve known your whole life and to go after what you want and who you want to be with everything you are.