[There's no real excuse. Nothing that really justified it, other than childish pride.]
I don't like being underestimated. I don't like being called a child. I'm not. I haven't been for a long time.
... I just don't like being told that I have to do something or not do something, that I have to be this way or that way. It's hard to become my own person when I'm being told what sort of person I'm supposed to become. ... I just want the freedom to decide for myself what to be.
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[There's no real excuse. Nothing that really justified it, other than childish pride.]
I don't like being underestimated. I don't like being called a child. I'm not. I haven't been for a long time.
... I just don't like being told that I have to do something or not do something, that I have to be this way or that way. It's hard to become my own person when I'm being told what sort of person I'm supposed to become. ... I just want the freedom to decide for myself what to be.