You are too emotional. You think too much. You need to lighten up. A simple exchange with a friend, misunderstood by me, is enough to send my day into cataclysmic agony. I need to have everything resolved, no loose ends in sight. I cannot function in the social unknown. “Do you think my personality is too much? Like, do you think I act too extra around people? Maybe I should tone it back.” I asked my mother these questions after a friend told me to calm down when I slid to the side of...

You are seven years old. You go to a church called Immanuel Bible Church, which you are told means ‘God is with us,’ and that it is not a...

Interview conducted by Ella Meyer in the The Crossings’s series on creativity and diversity within Bethel University’s student body. The...