When I was growing up I had to hide all that or my school and parents would force me to go to therapy and then put me on a random new medication every month.

I was terrified I was going to get institutionalized if I didn’t act as normal as I was capable of. I had multiple friends go through this. One of my friends almost killed himself while being forced to try a new antipsychotic for four weeks.

I hope kids these days feel a lot less pressure than my generation did about all that stuff.