Although I wouldn't say I've ever been an outcast, I can definitely remember times when I didn't feel like I fit the environment I was in.
I grew up in a rural area and since I had no interest in sports and often liked to talk to myself, those I went to school with had a tough time understanding me.
And while that feeling is very liberating, it's much harder to reach when you feel the group you can't relate to is the entire human race.
For one barber shop assistant, that's been a lifelong struggle.
As he told The Mirror, this led him to do some modelling work in his teens, but he later decided that this identity didn't fit who he really was.
He would also wear more masculine clothes and underwent surgery to remove his breasts.
As he said, "I thought being a trans man would solve all of my issues and inner battles with finding out who I was, but I wasn’t as happy as I expected to be."
While this is generally a very offensive way to address a transgender person, Jareth doesn't feel like he belongs almost anywhere on the gender spectrum or the human race in general.
When it comes to the part about being an alien, he told The Mirror, "I’d always been obsessed with aliens, too, and what it means to be extraterrestrial, so the idea of being an agender alien fit perfectly as an identity for me."
He legally changed his name to Jareth Nebula, which is partially a reference to David Bowie's character in Labyrinth and partially a nod to massive clouds of dust in space.
He hopes to increase this number to 333 because he considers three his lucky number.
Part of this had to do with the fact that he lived with an undiagnosed case of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome for most of his life.
The rare condition makes his skin stretch further than is normally possible and let him pop his joints out of place on command as a kid.
Ironically, that pain actually makes it harder for him to move even though he's technically capable of a wider ranger of motion than most people.
As he told The Mirror, "I get to a chiropractor once every two weeks and see a physical therapist once a week, as well as smoking medicinal marijuana for the pain – but there is currently no cure for EDS."
Although his family accepted and understood his earlier transition from female to male, they reject the idea of Jareth as an agender alien.
As he said, "People treat me like a freak because I’m an alien, but it’s a completely valid thing to call yourself."
h/t: The Mirror
