For most of us, growing up as anything but straight in secondary school wasn't exactly ideal.
Even if you weren't vilified or harassed for your sexuality, that air of not-belonging lingers over you; that feeling of existing just an inch outside of everyone else's world - unable to penetrate the invisible bubble that separates you from them . Sometimes, we still have to remind ourselves to shake that feeling off.
But perhaps Heartstopper will put a change to that.