Commentary: When you are not what society thinks you are

Let me paint a picture. You’ve thought and worked long and hard to understand who you are and what you’ll pursue. Finally able to articulate what makes you tick, they say “Really? I pegged you as a [insert stereotypical phrase here] person.”(Drags self on floor back to drawing board.)When who we are is not what society sees in us, do we give up or proceed? This was my dilemma for the past year.I became a local titleholder in the Miss America program the weekend college fi