https://www.thecut.com/2016/07/diane-arbus-c-v-r.html
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
Diane writes of a day spent observing people on the street and finding them "all odd and splendid as freaks and nobody able to see himself, all of us victims of the especial shape we come in."