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Why Don't You Care about the Real Me?
Summary: A personal essay which reflects upon the concept of "alienation." Describes the experience of being a loner and an outcast.
So just what is alienation, you ask? I don't even know where to begin. My entire life people have dismissed me as an outcast, ignoring me, making fun of me, even pretending to be my friend just to make a joke. I am sick of it all. I want it to stop. And then you come and ask me what it is I feel, so you can write about it for some essay. I looked it up in the dictionary for you and it says that alienation is "emotional isolation or dissociation." I can tell you that what I feel is much more than what your average "loner" feels. I have been suffering this horrid disease since the day I was born, and all that I want is for you people to accept me.
My parents completely ignored me through my childhood. They simply handed me off to...
This section contains 813 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |