Well, my powers came suddenly, so at first I thought I was a freak, but not long after Professor Xavier came and found me. I think that the way I dealt with it was to realize and embrace that they're a part of me that I can't change, but I can control it, even if it was hard to learn at first. It's a part of me just as much as anything else, and it doesn't change who I am either. Plus I realized that with my mutation I can help people and that's something I wanted to do.
There was a lot of freaking out and fear and frustration along the way, though. It's never been easy with the people that hate us and everything, though. It helped to have others like me accept me and everything, though.