Skip to main content

I started not believing what people thought of me

I started not believing what people thought of me. he is holding Wilson the bear named after Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, made by Nina R Salerno. My toys and the stories that I am collecting from people is about the celebration around adversity and difference, which is the source of beauty. The beauty is the fact that everyone has struggled and everyone has the capacity to survive. It is an opportunity to share and be part of something, that we are all the same, perfectly imperfect. This celebration is a testament to the human Spirit. sees my photo series, Perfect Reject Stories, where I go out and interview peoples on the street and ask them to share their stories about adversity, about being different and how they transform this to a celebration of difference. He shared his story about adversity, about being different and how they transform this to a celebration of difference.


“I started not believing what people thought of me”

Throughout my younger years I used to get rejected a lot by the women. They use to call me ugly, all types of names. And I used that to make me feel that I can do better with myself. And I started not believing what people thought of me but as how I see myself being and making myself happy. Now they see how I make myself. Really, they regret what they did to me.

When I was five years old I got hit in the back of the head with a stick. I went into the ambulance and they gave me a little toy, a little stuffed animal and I still have him. I named him Roosevelt after my dad. My dad wasn’t around when I was younger so I always kept him around.

~ Be the X tra in Ordinary ~ Perfect Reject Stories ~ Celebrate Difference