Purple by Jordyn White
Purple I was always called "different" as a child. No one could understand why I was the way I was, so they titled me. I never liked fairies or sparkles like the other girls, no. I know it's 2019 and people are more progressive, but I feel as if I grew up in what was last "traditionalist" generation. Everyone dressed their little girls in pink and their little boys in blue. That was the way it was. I grew up in purple, my own special combination of both gender norms. When we went to Disney for the first time that I remembered, I was around three or four. We did not go for the princesses, but rather the pirates. You see, I had an obsession with Pirates of the Caribbean , a trait that has carried through my infancy and into my young adulthood. I wanted to be Jack Sparrow. I didn't ever see myself wearing a dress, but I definitely could ...