Don't Judge Me

Most people are normal where I live. They have friends, they fit in, they go to school, they do everything that people are supposed to do.

Me? I have everything like that, except for one thing.

I've never fit in. I've never been accepted like others have been. I don't even have a cliche. I'm just an outcast.

I've always been.

I'm not what everyone expects me to be
I reject their ideals for my own
I have lost a part of me I never knew I had
I don't communicate like them
I defend those that they scorn
I hide from the world, so they can't hide from me
I am rejected for loving like I do
I don't care if they think I'm a way I'm not, though they say I should
I have a world that looks different than theirs
I can't always understand them
I don't want them to pity me
I want them to see me for me and not what happened to me

People can be so judgemental.

But maybe someone else feels my pain.

Maybe someone else has the courage to speak up. To say to those people who turn up their noses at us outcasts:

"Don't judge me."