VKIDS
Creative Corner
This is where we will publish creative work from anyone in our organization. The work should focus on body positivity, self acceptance, your skin, love, support or anything in between. If you're not sure if something fits, just email us and ask!
You can submit poetry, a short story, a drawing, a photograph...anything you want! Anyone can submit here; you don't have to have vitiligo or any other skin condition.
To submit any of your work, please email us at vitiligokids.org@gmail.com, and we'll publish it!
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**In your submission, please include the piece you are submitting, the title of the piece and an optional description of what it means to you.
Un-Normal
Short Story by Dhyana Abeysinghe, aged 17
I have always looked different. I have always felt different. Maybe it is because I am different. I’m sure people have many names for me. Zebra. Polka dots. Cow. It has never been easy to fit in. I have always stood out. The odd ball. A blue in a sea of greys. An apple in a basket of oranges. I have vitiligo. A skin condition. I have white patches on my skin.
I have always felt like I never belonged. That I am not normal. There are many things that I wished I had known sooner. Many things about how to love yourself. How to appreciate yourself. Self-love. Love-self. That goes without saying. But I really wish I had known this:
We all look different from one another. How can you call any one of us normal? We are all un-normal. Aka, unique. And guess what? It’s cool to be unique. It is cool to be different. You are a beautiful person inside your skin. Beauty on the outside does not define us.
If you are beautiful on the inside, you have everything. Absolutely everything.
Normal. What is normal? Why does that word even exist? I know what normal is. It is a tiny little circle. So tiny, you can’t even see it. With nothing inside of it.
Because nothing is normal.
Everything is un-normal. Absolutely everything.
