The pain men don't talk about | Reginald Patterson | TEDxApex

I remember the first time that I was told to man up. I was 7 years old. My father looked me dead in the eye and he asked me, "Are you a man or a mouse. " I was seven. What does that even mean? From that moment, I realized maybe the way that I'm presenting myself, the way that I'm acting, it's not man enough. But I had to learn if this is my father and this is my example, he's supposed to teach me how to be a man. See, the way that I express myself, those emotions, and the way that I genuinely just showed up ...