Alex
The Soft Part of Me and the Armoured Side
I’m showing a cake that I baked. I’m known for making a really good cake, a lotus Biscoff cake, vegan, egg-free and dairy-free because I’m allergic to milk.
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It makes me smile to make a cake, and I love sharing what I’ve made. It helps to disconnect from my brain sometimes and just do my own thing.
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The cake shows my developing side. The small red pieces represent the soft part of me, that’s very spongy, very delicate, the soft side. And the biscuits, that’s like the armoured side that’s surrounding the cake, it’s like a shield around me, because I’m still evolving, knowing my line, my boundaries.  It’s my strength, really.
Music Is What Saved Me
This is a picture of me drawing while listening to music on my laptop. You can see my laptop, it’s an old laptop and it brings back memories of going through GCSEs. The sound quality was so good; it could be really loud for a deaf person and I’d be able to hear lyrics, the beats, all those types of things.
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I believe music is what saved me. It gave me a purpose in doing what I’m doing; it gave me hope to succeed in my life. Music is just my passion, and it saved me. I see music more as escapism, and it can help you think about the world you want to build, the world you want to achieve. You can see that in the photo, which was taken at night. It’s my favourite time of the day; it makes me feel safe.
Walking
That’s probably one of my favourite photos, because growing up I didn’t really like being on my own. So it’s a picture of an outside setting and there’s a sunset, which is my favourite time of the day. That’s when I feel safe, seeing the sun shining through, and it feels like someone is hugging you in some way.
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When I’m walking it’s like I’m watching the whole movie of my life, because my life is like this long movie. I was afraid to be on my own with my own thoughts because sometimes my thoughts can be very negative. But now, I have good friends, I’m happy, I’m in a good place, I’m doing well. I feel like sunset is when I feel like I’m home. The colours are really something positive. I love seeing a pink sky, it’s beautiful.