How I Learned To “Be Myself” As An Adult

A life lesson I discovered while making YouTube videos.

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Photo by Almos Bechtold on Unsplash

When I was a teenager, I was recording a YouTube video with my friends in the park. Let me paint you a picture: this was in 2010, the era of Smosh, PewDiePie, and smaller cliques of YouTubers that everyone knew. I got it in my head that I was going to be a YouTuber too, so I took my camera everywhere.

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