I'm Different

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When I was little, my mother always told me I was a special little girl

Different in my own way

I never knew how I was different

I just "was"

During grade school

I would always be teased for my differences

I never knew why

The teasing got progressively worse

To the point where I was physically hurt by them

I never knew why they hurt me

In middle school

It got so bad that I had to go to the hospital

I had broken bones everywhere

But I wasn't hurting anywhere

I never knew why

When I finally recovered

The abuse only got worse

Some days I would be knocked unconscious

I never knew how I'd end up

When I graduated from highschool

I was glad to be free from abuse

But boy

Was I wrong

It was worse than before

I never knew it'd be this bad

In the end

I never knew how or why I was different

And so

I began to question everything

Maybe I wasn't different

Maybe I was just like them

Maybe they hated me

I never knew the reason

One day

I met an old bully

He tried to hurt me

And then

Just then

Something awoke in me

Something I'd never felt before

Something I knew made me different

Maybe this is how I was different

I never knew what being alive really felt like

I fought back effortlessly

And won

I actually won

I never knew how good it felt to be on the other end of the punches

I now knew how I was different

I was faster

Smarter

Stronger

And they were afraid

They never wanted me to find out

Never wanted my true self be unleashed

But when I was unleashed

I felt an indescribable feeling

And I'm never going back

I know that now

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