Expectations

The weight of expectation on a young person can be debilitating when they are trying to establish their identities and become a fully formed adult. Because the environment of Willowgrove is so conservative, the teens living there are raised with heavy expectations on how they should perform and behave based on their gender.

Shara spends her whole life folding to the demands of the expectations placed on her by the society she is born into, and this makes her miserable. As Shara herself says on her Instagram Live: “To be honest, it was easy. I’ve been lying my whole life—though I prefer to think of it as adapting. Working. As far back as I can remember, everybody told me I was pretty, I was perfect, I was a legacy, so I decided to be that, because it made my parents like me better and...