Ashley Park Has Finally Come to Terms With Being a ‘Survivor’

glamour.com:

Ashley Park overcame cancer as a teen, but she never considered herself a “survivor.” She just wanted to be seen as Ashley—as someone more than her disease.

Name-calling is one of the oldest power plays in the book: It’s just as cutting in the boardroom as it was on the playground, but since it never causes physical harm, it’s easily dismissed.

And while we all know the "stick and stones" rhyme, anyone who’s been called crazy or a slut (or stuck with any label she doesn’t identify with) understands just how damaging name-calling can be.

In , Glamour talks to some of the most interesting women we know about the role name-calling or labels played in their past—and how it’s shaped the women they are today.At 15, an age so formative even Taylor Swift has a song dedicated to it, Ashley Park was diagnosed with leukemia.