Laya Mosto

It's what's going to get you places.

And you're like, there's just something you're never going to get.

Yes.

And I would say that's still true to this day.

Yeah.

I mean, I had to make friends in very different environments all the time, whether it was like in Dubai, then it was like Chicago, then it was Toronto, then it was New York and very different people from different cultures all the time.

I think I learned how to mold myself to different conversations, which can be very...

Not pleasant, I would say.

I mean, it's a skill.

You develop it.

But I would say that I always maybe felt like I had to make myself, like... Fit?

Yeah.

And present, like, a bite-sized version of myself.

And, like, it took a long time to learn.

In the beginning, all I wanted to do was talk about Syria and what happened.

Of course.

That's all I needed to get it out of me.

A lot of people around me, like, did not believe me or did not, like, really gaslit, like, the whole mental health part or, like, you're being too dramatic or you're being, like,

Like, that's a lot.

Like, come on.