It started with a necklace.

But it turned into something else entirely.

A visit to the neighbors, one question, two voices calling me dumb — and suddenly, I was standing at the edge of something bigger: what it means to speak your truth, even when you’re told to shut up.

They say it’s social anxiety. I say it’s fiction. Listen if you’ve ever been told to sit down when your mind was ready to stand up.

Outro: “A bar song” by Shaboozey