At one point or another, most people feel like they don’t belong. This usually happens with school, people forming cliques and sticking to them, excluding others and making the social hierarchy of school a strange and rough experience. If there was something about you that was different, then it might make your life harder.

    Huang Zitao, someone who had never really felt fully comfortable in his own skin, definitely knew about how being different can be a brand on a person. And that that brand can drive people away or give others free ammunition.

    Tao knew what it was like to not fit in really anywhere, and he didn’t know if he ever would fit in.

    Being adopted was already something different, but being adopted into a family that was different from your own ethnicity was an even higher degree of difference.

    And while those traits of a person weren’t always like a stigma, for Tao it felt like it wa