My artistic talent

I’ve had a natural artistic ability for my entire life and I’ve been hearing praise for it since I was old enough to put a crayon to paper. I have the ability to copy a photograph nearly identically and create at least a very good likeness with a paintbrush. This is a talent which had been one of the few things that I liked about myself, it’s helped me threw bad times and will continue to serve me throughout my life.
Since I was very young, all the way back to preschool, I felt an immense and inescapable rejection from my peers. It seems now that it was so bad I would like to call it schizophrenia, a chuckle or mumbled word from anyone would cause m...