I want to be a voice actress, yet anyone who has known me from pre-k to 12th grade always saying to me "YOU want to be WHAT?!" They always think because I'm quiet or shy, that I don't have the potential to be what I REALLY want to be. Even my own mother has gone as far to say that with how I act and how I don't "speak up" I'll never be about to accomplish my goal. :\ Though, I normally just feel like I don't HAVE to speak up, or that it's not my place to. It's not that I'm shy or anything. I mean, I was when I was a little girl, but I grew out of that. Though still, even people who normally just meet me are always completely baffled when I tell them what I aspire to be. I dunno, I never say anything about it and I just roll my eyes but it's truly annoying.
And not only the voice actress thing gets on my nerves. When I was in middle school, I was CRAZY about anime. But because I'm black, I always had someone said to me, "you're black, you should like rap and not japanese stuff" It got me pretty fumed, of course. But maybe that's why I plan to show them all that I CAN to things that may seem "out of my character" because it's who I am.