KayzCorner

For most of my life, I’ve felt like a robot. I don’t mean one of those robots that seem to be practically human from television shows and movies, with amazing human-like features which allow them to almost blend in with human life. What I mean, is one of those robots that you get out of the toy aisle and when you take it out of its box turns out it’s dysfunctional. It moves loudly, slowly, wobbly and the voice is distorted. The kind you usually put right back in the package and return to the store for a refund because it doesn’t have any use. Growing up, emotionally I was rather robotic, never excited when I should be, sad when I should be, never expressive enough. My family used to tease me, claiming I was autistic and this was something that made me angry for a number of years. I felt like everyone could see as I fumbled along the bumpy terrain of human expression and interaction, coming to jarring halts and falling when it should have been smooth. Beyond this, I struggled with dep...

This past month was National Pride month; for those who do not know what this means, it is basically a month set aside to bring awareness about LQBTQ+ issues, as well as to honor individuals who have contributed to the LGBT+ community by advocating and speaking up about LGBT+ issues. From what I understand it is about being proud of who you are and embracing who you are as a person. There have been conversations, and when I say conversations I am putting it in polite terms, about how if there is an existence of pride month for LGBTQ+ individuals than there should also be a month for heterosexual people. This argument is nothing new, it basically follows the lines of arguments such as “all lives matter vs. black lives matter”, “Meninist vs. Feminist”, etc. However, people who make these arguments are completely missing the point. Pride, does not equivalate discrimination or even dismissal of heterosexuality, just as the black lives movement does not dismiss the idea that all lives hav...