Adopted from China at age one, I never knew anything different than the suburban American neighborhood I grew up in. Lack of exposure to others who shared my ethnicity, culture, and appearance led to me forming an early self-opinion that was a fallacy of my identity. I fit in well among my peers but always felt an unspoken gap between them. My race and ethnicity, along with my heritage, were utterly unlike theirs, but since I was constantly exposed to the same traditional standards, I modified myself to become the same.