My name is August Pullman. You probably have never heard of me, but I can assure you, once you see me, you'll never forget me. I'm not exactly what a normal human being looks like. I have this disease, and my face... it's just very different. I'm the only person in this world that looks like this, and that's a fact. You can ask any doctor or medical scientist, they'll all say that I'm special, that they've never seen anyone like me, and that I'm a medical wonder. In some way, everyone wants to be different. Everyone wants to be unique, and special; everyone but me. I just want to be normal, with a normal face. I want to have eyebrows, ears that look like ears, eyes that aren't on my cheeks, and a proper mouth and jaw, but I don't have any of that. I just want to be normal; I want to look normal. I don't want to have everyone judge me for what I look like. Everyday I walk down the street and this is what I see: everyone stops and stares at me. When I was a kid, I'd always ask myself and wonder, "Why are people looking at me like that?". Sometimes, I'd even turn around, thinking there was someone or something behind me, but there never is. As I grew up, I realized it was me they were looking at. Not something behind me, but my face. Of course, I tried to ignore it, but it's just so difficult. Everyone, and I mean everyone, looks at me like I'm a freak, like I'm an alien, like I'm a monster that's about to eat them up. Can't they see that I'm just a normal human being? I'm not what you think I am. They say not to judge a book by its cover, but why does no one do that? Whenever someone looks at me, they automatically think I have learning disabilities, or that I am somehow disabled, but I'm not! I'm just like you, except that I have an abnormal face. Why can't you see that?Why can't people understand, that who I am inside is not what I look like? Why can't anyone understand that I see the facial expressions they make? Why can't anyone understand that I hear what you say about me? Why can't you understand, that I see and hear everything that's going on, and everything you say or do hurts?I'm just a boy, trying to fit in this world, but why is it so hard? Why is it so difficult?
