“Acted like I totally knew where I was going on my first day of college” meanwhile I was checking the map every 2 seconds and hoping nobody noticed... #hwa3 #tinymemoir

I will not do well on my math exam. This is false and truly performance based because it is up to me to decide how I will be preparing for it and how I will end up doing #hwa3 #tinymemoir

One thing I've imagined as real is the version of myself I am today. I imagined hitting my short-term goals all last semester, and now I am doing exactly what I said I would. Within this i had to become very performative, where it felt like I was living a lie #hwa3 #tinymemoir

"I had the absolute worst day ever today". While this can be very emotionally true for me or anyone depending on the scenario it often isn't factually true and rather than promoting facts it invokes an emotional tie that people can relate to which is a slippery slope #hwa3 #tinymemoir

“I always knew exactly who my people would be.”

this is factually false because I couldn’t have known that at the time, but it feels true because looking back makes it seem almost inevitable. Its a performance cuz I’m reshaping the memory based on how I understand it now. #hwa3 #tinymemoir

#hwa3 #tinymemoir I was the only girl in all of chess, waring to prove myself as a formidable opponent and not someone who could just be brushed off. Factually, this is untrue because sometimes there would be other girls at my chess competitions, but more often than not I still felt like the "other"

I have enough time to study for my Orgo exam. In reality, I pushed it a little too far, but I believe in my ability to cram, so I can make it happen. Even though it isn't factually true, I feel strongly about it, so I can "stage" it to be true. #hwa3 #tinymemoir

"time flies by when you're having fun" genuinely makes me feel so sick to the stomach, so much so that it feels false, but so happy (emotionally true)-- it's performance-based because it's said sm & such a bittersweet feeling knowing time is passing by but i'm actually enjoying. #hwa3 #tinymemoir

I scored the winning goal in every match I played. Factually false, but it is emotionally true because that is how big those moments felt. It is a performance because I get a real feeling by using a fake event, blurring the thin line between fiction and nonfiction.
#hwa3
#tinymemoir

Im a time traveler... I am emotionally a time traveler because I enjoy listening to old music and shows. However, sadly this is not factually true as I in fact can not time travel. #hwa3 #tinymemoir

"I blinked and my first year of college was over." Obviously I didn't blink and lose an entire year, it feels emotionally true because of how quick it felt. This is a performance because I'm changing the factual description of what happened to better represent how it felt. #hwa3 #tinymemoir

#hwa3 #tinymemoir im a black cat. obviously, im a human, but a very specific archetype of character pops into your mind, and suddenly you understand my personality. this is rehearsed, i had to come across black cat media to know i fall under this category, but that doesn't negate the trueness of it

"As I was on my way to six flags I was so excited and got on every single roller coaster ride" this is a performance because it is a feeling of thinking that the excitement will indicate that you will go on everything.
#hwa3 #tinymemoir

#hwa3 #tinymemoir “When I moved out and landed in the us I became a different person“ this is true because I felt brand new I felt I could make better and new decisions, I was alone and needed to build my life from 0, I was performing because I was doing what I thought people do when they are adults

"I was able to grow another heart chamber to store the expectations of others that I held close to me." This statement proves the point of how policing genres into confined categories limits the ability for readers to emotionally understand. #hwa3 #tinymemoir

"I know what I'm doing in life" emotionally I want to believe that I know what I'm doing but many times I question whether or not I made the right decision on certain things. You could take a look at me and think that I'm not the age I am bc where I am in life rn #hwa3 #tinymemoir

"i grew up with no siblings" this is emotionaly true but factually false. i have two brothers but they are 16 and 14 years older than me, so I grew up without them in my everyday life. Something can be true but be fabricated to exaggerate #hwa3 #tinymemoir

#hwa3 #tinymemoir "You grew up waiting for someone to hand you the how-to guide to adulting, when you were the only one who could give it to yourself all along." reality isn't a mirror its a lens, if you constantly are looking in the mirror thinking the answer to something is in the past,

“Walked into the gym knowing what I was doing” thought in reality I didn’t know what I was doing since it was my first time, but had to fake the confidence.
#hwa3 #tinymemoir

I grew up as an only child.

This is a performance because I actually have an older sister, but we just have a large age gap that growing up, it did feel like I was an only child. The sentence is able to portray the true emotions I felt, but the false "reality" of the situation. #hwa3 #tinymemoir