“Math is probably one of my weakest subjects... yet, for some reason it was always expected that I’d have the answers... It wasn’t really me being like, “this is wrong that I’m being held up to the standard.” It was more stress being like, “Okay, I have to figure this out. And then I have to live up to the standard and help everyone else out. So it was less of a this is wrong to be expected of me and more of a, how do I fit this kind of expectation that people have of me.”

“Something that I think I’ve personally always struggled with is there’s this expectation of kind of excellence
— sometimes where even among like my own community. Sometimes I’m just like, guys, it’s okay, it’s like academics are important. And this is an expectation to do well. But then at the same time, if you do a certain thing or if you look a certain way, then you’re automatically kind of counted out as like different.”