It saddened me that I couldn’t access that part of myself that was so excited about language because my way of speaking, with an accent or inventing words or pronouncing words as I heard them, was deemed wrong.
Me entristecía no poder acceder a esa parte de mí mismo que se emocionaba por el lenguaje porque mi forma de hablar con un acento, o inventando palabras, o pronunciando como escuchara, se consideraba incorrecto.