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Daily writing prompt

Tell us about a time when you felt out of place.

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I felt out of place when I went to college after I underwent a brain injury at sixteen. I walked as if I was mentally challenged. I wasn’t, though. Every time I walked anywhere on campus, I felt out of place because I appeared to be so incompetent to the strangers around me. I coped with this perpetual humiliation with drugs. The drugs I took during college included weed, shrooms, and even some acid and cocaine. What was a time you felt out of place? What happened, and how did you cope?