“I’m 14 years old and I’m in grade 9. I actually just started wearing

“I’m 14 years old and I’m in grade 9. I actually just started wearing the hijab about a month ago. My parents have always wanted me to wear it, but it was my own personal choice to start wearing it in the end."I used to feel really uncomfortable wearing it around people, which is how I ended up getting to 14 years of age without wearing it often. With everything that’s happening in the world, people get judged a lot by things like that, and I wanted to fit in with everyone else, I guess. I didn’t want to draw attention to myself. I really wasn’t living my life for myself, I was doing what I thought other people wanted me to do. I wasn’t being a leader, I was being a follower. I didn’t want to do that any more. I want people to accept me for who I am. For my religion. For my ethnicity. I want to people accept me for who I actually am rather than the version of myself that was just me trying to be what they wanted me to be. That’s why I started wearing a hijab."I used to only wear it occasionally, and some pretty bad stuff would happen. Me and my friends would just be walking down the street, and people would yell negative comments. That really scared me. Even a couple of days ago, somebody who I know saw me with it on and she kind of blew me off. I called out her name and she turned away. I don’t know whether it was because I had it on and she was in front of her friends… I don’t know the actual reason. But in the moment it felt like it was because I was wearing the hijab.” -- source link

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