How To Be Considered A Misfit

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In my family, I tend to be considered the misfit. I don’t have the same interests, the same personality, or the same aspirations as my relatives. This usually leads to confrontations between me and my parents, and those confrontations always conclude the same way. I often feel that I have to pretend to have the same characteristics them in order to be accepted, however, it’s extremely tedious when I loathe everything that they love. Firstly, I am interested in things that the majority of my family members have never even heard of. For example, I am a fan of anime and manga, which are Japanese animations and graphic novels. My mother, on the only hand, despises anime and wishes I would cease from watching it. My elder brother is the only

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