To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it.

I was definitely an at-risk kid growing up.

I probably felt most out of place as a young kid growing up in Sri Lanka. My mental world was somewhere else, partly because of reading and daydreaming.

As a young queer kid growing up, I explored my identity through the Chicago and Washington, D.C., club scene.

As a kid growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself.

I knew what the Dodgers uniform represented as a kid growing up in Brooklyn.