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But I didn’t really know what I was supposed to be doing otherwise, because I didn’t have the best understanding of myself at the time.Īnd I feel like to reach your full potential, you need to get a handle on yourself, you need to learn who you really are in the inside in order to become the hero of your own life story.ĪLSO READ: The Dark Side of the Web: Exploring Darknets by Kyle Terry (Full Transcript) Growing up, I knew that I didn’t fit into these molds that I was trying to be pushed into. And I come from a family and cultural background that really tried to pressure me into being something that I wasn’t. What’s my burden? Well, as I said earlier, I’m weird, I don’t really fit in, and I have never been, nor will be, normal. We all have challenges and burdens and flaws to overcome. So, today, I want to tell you about one fun method of using the power of characters to find support, context, understanding, and meaning in your own life story.īecause, as we all know, life’s tough. And even more than that, I got to appreciate my struggles from a higher perspective, and cope with an imperfect world in a healthy way. I learned that heroes never give up, I learned that they get to look super snazzy while doing so. They showed me that I wasn’t alone, that there were other people out there who didn’t fit in, who had to fight for their rights to be individuals.Īnd not only that, there were just as many women on the team, and they were just as powerful and important and intelligent as the male characters, which really confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about gender equality.Īnd I got to live vicariously through these characters they helped me to have an understanding of society’s fear of the different. It’s really comical now, but back then it was really confusing and a bit of a nightmare.Īnd then I met the X-Men. And for those of you who are unfamiliar, the X-Men are a group of mutants with fabulous and terrifying powers, who are shunned and feared by society, when all they want to do is peacefully coexist and just have the right to be themselves in public.Īnd this idea really spoke to me when I was a child, because, growing up, I was a girl who loved watching horror movies, and drawing, and reading comic books - growing up in Alabama.ĪLSO READ: Anna Rosling Rönnlund: See How the Rest of the World Lives, Organized by Income (Transcript)Īnd to make matters worse, I was born into a family of very conservative engineers. Now, for me, Cyclops and Jean Grey are more real than Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
And let me tell you about my favorite characters, the X-Men.
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And not only that, I feel like comics really show you how to deal with life versus just telling you.Īnother thing that I love about comic books is the colorful cast of characters that you meet in them. It teaches you how to empathize with other people. I’ve always found myself turning to fiction, because I believe that narrative provides a world where you can simulate feelings and experiences in a safe way. And they have helped me to understand myself and the world, and have really answered a lot of questions I’ve had about life.Īnd I know that when a lot of other people have questions about life, they tend to turn to things like self-help books. I have a lot of strong opinions about art, and I want to share some of those opinions with you today.Īnd while I talk about more than just comics, I feel like comics are the medium that have really inspired me the most. And I host a self-titled show on YouTube where I talk about comics, movies, literature, television, anything that’s artistic, that has a story that I feel is “the good stuff.” And it’s a very opinionated show. Here is the full text of sequential art expert Comic Book Girl 19’s talk titled “Using comic book characters to identify your true self” at TEDxClaremontColleges conference.Ĭomic Book Girl 19 – TEDx Talk TRANSCRIPT
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