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I was always a scared child. Afraid of bugs, heights, jumping into pools, dolls, the consequences of not forwarding a chain email, missing a step at my dance recital, breaking a bone in gymnastics, mispronouncing a word while reading aloud in class, getting laughed at, feeling humiliated, unknowingly purchasing a haunted house (ty season one of AHS). I was one small person with an infinite amount of things to be afraid of. I had hardly believed that I was larger than the things that scared me.