I'm Still The Same And

"our First Conversation Was On The Phone. I Was In The Bathtub, And I Had To Tell Him That I Was In The Bathtub Because I Was Afraid He Would Think I Was, Like, Playing In The Toilet When He Heard Water Swishing Around. [...] Then We Had Breakfast In Santa Monica, And I Spit Egg Inside Of His Mouth When I Was Talking.

It Was Really Impulsive. I Was Just Like, I'm Cutting It! And Then It Was Just All Gone.

My Family Went On A Cruise, And I Got A Terrible Haircut. Fyi: Never Get Your Hair Cut On A Cruise. And I Had, Like, This Blonde Curly 'fro, And I Walked Into The Gym The First Day Back In Seventh Grade And Everyone Was Staring At Me, And For Some Reason I Thought, I Know What I Need To Do! And I Just Started Sprinting From One End Of The Gym To The Other, And I Thought It Was Hilarious. But Nobody Else At That Age Really Did. It Was Genuinely Weird

I Tried To Avoid Making Plays Or Films That Weren't Telling A Story That I Felt Was Important. And What I Discovered In The Process Is, It Makes You More Empathic Because You Have To Enter Someone Else's Reality And You Learn To See Through Many Other People's Eyes.

I'm From Kentucky. I Used To Be Very Personable And Make Eye Contact And Smile At People, And Now All I Do Is Look Down. When I'm At Dinner And One Person After Another Keeps Interrupting To Take Pictures, It's Like, "i Can't Live Like This."