I don’t know anyone who remembers meeting their parents when they were a baby so i’m just like everybody else. -Zoey (100% Real)

When I first went to kindergarten kids asked me what I was. I did not understand-I’m a person. They explained that I look a little different and it is not as easy to tell which...

You are real! Everyone has to be different or the world would be really boring. If we all looked the same, then no one could tell us apart. -Janelle

Looking at my reflection tonight, I see a new girl staring back at me. She has big hair and big eyes and a big heart. Not only is she the perfect size and pretty…she is...

Don’t get me wrong. I love to be alone. When I am by myself, I get to create my own version of reality where I am the popular girl and really pretty, and friends can’t...

I’m at a camp with over 100 girls 11 to 13 years old, around my own age, and I feel like my parents are my only friends. -Mackenzie

I don’t always think of myself as ethnic…my mom is Black, and my dad is White, and we like to call my race”Bi-racial”. Everyone at camp is interesting because they just call me Black. -Mackenzie

When I was in the third grade, I did my very best to fail every class so that the kids would like me and stop calling me a teacher’s pet. It did not work out...