Chained Vitriol.

I'm the guy who people turn to in order to open heavy doors and lift heavy bags and reach highly-placed objects, or to execute just about any other tough task that the average person cannot. I'm a big and tall man and was always the contextual equivalent as a child growing up. That said: While my size is a quality that can't be bought, it unintentionally invites people's rude and unwanted comments; Sometimes without malicious intent and other times the opposite. It's something that only other people with my height and size can relate to, I think, because our interactions with the rest of the world can only be seen through our eyes and our dynamic can only be understood through said experiences.

The common experience of other people seeing only my size as something to exploit, as if my gift of size is all that there is to me, is the central reason for why I make it a priority in my life to demonstrate my knowledge and intellect to others as a way to combat the stereotypical conclusions that people make about me upon first sight.

I am a character, I'm not a caricature. I'm Bruce Banner, I'm not The Hulk. All other arguments to the contrary are the exact reasons for why I decided to not play football in High School, for example, despite the constant and relentless harassment from coaches and assistant coaches because I despised the idea of being used as a tool as a means to other people's ends on top of not being recognized for my deeper and more substantial self. Emotionally, I suppose my experiences as a big man can be compared to the reasoning for why the "friends-with-benefits" or "one night stand" types of situations are not ideal ones for myself: Because I'm more than a walking play-toy that can be disposed of the moment a better deal comes along. I'm worth more than that. I am a human being with emotions and opinions and boundaries like anybody else and when people cross or disregard those things, I feel the need to call those things out. And that's my right.

There's always more than what meets the eye.