December
18
Seriously! They are ALL gay!
Facebook allows us to find (stalk) people from our past. It is a great opportunity to connect with people who were once part of our lives but we lost touch with.
Including people from middle school…
I have shared that my experience through middle school was pretty rough. I was teased for being gay (something I did not at the time) quite often. It was a hard time and I struggled with dealing with the bullying.
It was even harder for me because my sister was a lesbian. These kids were teaching me that being gay was wrong, different and something that would lead you to be picked on. I loved my sister and did not understand how being gay could be so wrong. This just added to my own personal struggle.
Well… as I am looking up people from my middle school past I am amazed by something a lot of them have in common…
They are ALL gay! Yes, A LOT of the kids in middle school who bullied me are all gay.
Do I blame these kids for making life hard on me? No. A lot of them were having their own personal struggles.What happened in my life made me stronger. It made me who I am today. I not only survived, I thrived through it all.
I wonder if school would have been different if being gay wasn’t seen as a bad thing. Maybe I would be friends with those guys who gave me a hard time. Maybe we would have been support for each other.
Maybe together we wouldn’t have felt so different…
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Ken
on 18 Dec 2009 at 10:45 pm #
Last year, while at a gay bar, I ran into a guy I had gone to high school with. He was one of the jock crowd that made my life hell for 4 years. I could was mad as hell when he asked that I not out him to anyone. I struggled with it for quite awhile. Of course, I didn’t out him but I thought to myself how dare he ask me to make his life easier by keeping his secret when he made my life such hell
m4m
on 19 Dec 2009 at 12:25 pm #
haha… they are all gay. It’s just that sometime we have to live up to the peer pressure. The gay ones turned straights, but then when they are out of HS or so, they realize that oh I’m gay too lol
JM
on 23 Dec 2009 at 8:21 am #
I think this post is genius and I have had similar experiences to this in other areas of my life. It is so true when they say that the things you call others or dislike about others are usually traits or weaknesses you possess. When you don’t like things about yourself, you try to pick that apart in others and criticize to make them feel as bad about it as you do yourself. Have a great holiday and thank you for always sharing such insightful and meaningful stories and experiennces with your readers!
JM