Tony Hawk

900 schmine hundred.

For sure, yeah.

I mean, I was really small for my age.

So from seventh grade on when kids are hitting their growth spurts, I mean, I literally looked like people used to think I was visiting my older brother in high school, like especially in ninth grade.

And then I was a skater.

So, you know, in the hallway, skater fag, all that stuff like that was rampant.

And those aren't my words.

Those are my bully's words.

But like I said, we didn't have any resources.

We didn't know how to navigate that.

No one was going to trouble for it.

It was just the way that you... That's sort of the story of Generation X, I guess.

I don't know if that happened yet.

I mean, yeah, I never was comfortable with that, that idea, that moniker, because it just, I wasn't, I never felt cool, you know, and I always felt like an outsider.

even in skateboarding, when I found skateboarding and I found this thing that I love that I want to focus on the way that I did, it was uncool.

So I'm in this, I already am existing on this Island of misfits being a skateboarder.

And then I'm an outcast on that Island because of the way I do skateboarding.

So, um,

Yeah, I just never, I was always very self-conscious.

I think I finally sort of grew into my own ease through my adult years, not even through the video game cycle, but just more