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Ever since I was a little boy, I\u2019ve dreamt small.

I was a sickly child with severe ADHD. I had a learning disability that made it hard for me to read letters. And I was gay without knowing what that meant.

Other kids and a few teachers made me feel like an outsider and not good enough.

My health issues, which attracted unwanted attention, and being in the closet kept me fearful of freely expressing my truth. I was too scared to talk about it with my parents because the root of my fear was the thing I knew about myself but didn\u2019t understand. My thoughts were, I\u2019m no good, I\u2019m not well, I\u2019m not smart enough, I\u2019ll never amount to anything.

I allowed those perceptions to limit my life into my early 40s...

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