Acceptance Coming Alive Remember that awkward stage of your life? There is a year or two you wish you could have just skipped over, whether it was the awkward pimps stage or the braces stage. What if this “stage” never went away what would have you done? Run away or accepted it? In the memoirs, El Deafo by Cece Bell and Tomboy by Liz Prince, both girls grew up a little different than a “normal” girl their age because their appearances were not just like everyone else’s. Bell was a deaf student in a non-deaf environment and Prince was a tomboy who did not fit in with the girls or boys because of the way she acted and what she enjoyed doing. Both stories of self-acceptance, the authors took different approaches in writing their graphic novels. It is something every person has to go through, some people’s self-acceptance stories are a little easier than others, but in the case of Bell and Prince’s they were not easy at any point until they realized it was okay to be different. Bell was deaf, she had to wear a “Phonic Ear”, a hearing aid that had cords going in each ear and a large pack that they were to on her chest, to school every day.…show more content… In El Deafo and Tomboy, Bell and Prince were able to share their stories about self-acceptance after being rejected by the kids they grew up with. Growing up with a disability like Bell is hard, but to make matters worse she had to wear hearing aids and huge pack to let the hearing aids work is hard and similarly Prince only felt comfortable in clothes for the opposites sex and was often called a boy makes it extremely hard to accept yourself at young at when no one else does. Both stories were shared in different, yet similar ways. They showed that self-acceptance is harder said than done and it is easier when those around help or accept you for who you are
