The Otherness of Being Asian American

I think I had this massive chip on my shoulder because I knew what fullness perhaps tasted like up until five years old. And then I was kind of put into this box partly for myself too. But also it was kind of just constantly regurgitated to me or reflected back to me that I am this other thing. You know, there was also just assimilation, just trying to be a part of it while not. So yeah, coming out of college and getting approached with things like that, it wasn't me having some mission statement to be like, I'm never doing accent stuff. It was more along the lines of I just really needed to be me and I needed people to