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He was a broken branch grafted onto a different family tree, adopted,
這個男生被嫁接在另外一個家庭上，被人領養，
not because his parents opted for a different destiny.
并不是因為他的父母離婚了。
He was three when he became a mixed drink of one part left alone and two parts tragedy,
他在三歲的時候就飲下了一杯孤獨、兩杯苦難勾兌的酒，
started therapy in eighth grade, had a personality made up of tests and pills,
八年級的時候開始接受治療，各種心理測試和藥丸塑造了他的人格，
lived like the uphills were mountains and the downhills were cliffs,
他的生活就像是過山車一樣顛簸不定，
four fifths suicidal, a tidal wave of antidepressants,
四五次自殺未遂，一波一波的抗抑郁藥，
and an adolescence being called "Popper,"
還有“嗜藥者”的外號。
one part because of the pills, 99 parts because of the cruelty.
1%是由于這些藥丸，99%是因為生活的殘酷。
He tried to kill himself in grade 10
十年級的時候嘗試自殺，
when a kid who could still go home to Mom and Dad had the audacity to tell him, "Get over it."
那個時候他還在家住，他的爸爸媽媽跟他說的只是，“你要克服它。”
As if depression is something that could be remedied by any of the contents found in a first aid kit.
就好像抑郁可以輕易的被急救藥箱里面的什么東西修復好的一樣。
To this day, he is a stick of TNT lit from both ends,
今天，他就像是一根TNT炸藥桶，兩端都被點燃了，
could describe to you in detail the way the sky bends in the moment before it's about to fall,
他會告訴你，當天空開始墜落時，天空將會如何的扭曲彎折。
and despite an army of friends who all call him an inspiration,
盡管很多的朋友都稱贊他的才華，
he remains a conversation piece between people who can't understand
他依然免不了成為別人的談資，這些人無法理解，
sometimes being drug-free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.
一個人是否吸毒跟藥物上癮關系不大，更多的取決于他的理智。
We weren't the only kids who grew up this way.
像我們這樣成長起來的孩子還有很多。
To this day, kids are still being called names.
時至今日，有的孩子還在被人取侮辱的外號。
The classics were, "Hey stupid," "Hey spaz."
比如，“笨蛋”，“怪胎”。
Seems like every school has an arsenal of names getting updated every year,
似乎每個學校里面都有一個彈藥庫存儲這些外號，一年一年的更新換代，
and if a kid breaks in a school and no one around chooses to hear, do they make a sound?
如果學校里一個孩子受了傷卻沒人愿意理他，他們會讓人知道么？
Are they just background noise from a soundtrack stuck on repeat when people say things like, "Kids can be cruel."
還是說他們就像錄音磁帶的噪音一樣反復不停，而人們只是說著“孩子也會很壞”這樣的話？
