You laugh because I’m different but I laugh because you’re all the same

My mom moved us out to Los Angeles when I was about 12 because she wanted us to be around more of our own people. I’m from Camarillo and it is really rural out there, in the high end. I grew up there, being brought up proper and then we moved to Inglewood. I was the white washed kind of not really the hood guy and it was really difficult. 

I got chased out of my first school. Then I got put into the rival school so I’ve also kind of been the different one as far as it goes. But you live it up. The saying that I live by that I read once, you laugh because I’m different but I laugh because you’re all the same. I like being different. I like being able to say this is mine. I like saying I am unique. I don’t conform to a lot of trends. I find something I like and then I do it rather than having to go out and buy the latest clothes, constantly worrying about being with the in crowd. It influences my writing a lot. I write novels.

I dress like this just to accentuate the fact that I am different. I don’t always tote around the fork and the spoon. This is just what I like. It stands out a little bit but it doesn’t stand out to the point where it’s obscene.

I used to have a stuffed animal and his name was Neya. It got me through a really rough patch in my life but I don’t have it anymore. It was a cat. She was there when I needed her. She was something that I could cuddle and talk to you when I was having a rough time. It was good to have some buddy there for me.