Hi
Fix’d
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I saw Perez Hilton and immediately clicked off of it. :pffft:
Psh.
Holy shit, that’s one ugly bitch up there. Like… really ugly.
This might not be helpful, but if your family doesn’t accept you the way you are, why bother staying in contact with them? I’d rather have friends that support me than a family that hates me for being the person I am…
The woman in that picture? She looks awful on there, at least 
Do people believe you when you say you’re gay? Because I had a friend who I thought was straight until recently. When he told me he was gay, I originally didn’t believe him.
Well, I’m currently unemployed, a college student. My family is my main source of financial aid and moral support. I hate to make it sound like I keep my sexuality a secret to get money, I mean they pay tuition and housing, I can support myself otherwise, but if I was to lose that support, I would be homeless, I literally have no other place to go, I don’t even know if my ex-boyfriend would take me in, he might but I don’t want to put that kind of burden on someone else, my ex is one of the few people I am close with that doesn’t still live in University housing of some sort.
This is the trouble of being a godless, homosexual heathen from a conservative family. Ironically, I think my Grandmother, who is the most conservative, and works in a Mormon Temple, yet she is understanding and saintlike in nature, she would be the only one to support me.
I have read up a lot on others experiences with being disowned, most of them suggest finding someone who will take you in if the situation is like mine.
I was with my boyfriend hand in hand when he came out to his parents about 2 1/2 years ago, they were understanding and extremely supportive, I think I would want a partner with me when I do it.
I’m barely 21 years old, the thought of the past 20 years of my life being forfeit and the family I would die for would be the ones to leave me on the street is absolutely terrifying. I want the confidence to know this wouldn’t happen but I love my family too much to take that risk at this point in my life.
Well, when I tell someone, I say I’m Bi, which is what I feel I am. Most people believe, I have had a few people not, like when I told an ex-girlfriend, mainly because she didn’t really understand Bisexual, it was hard for her comprehend at first but after a week or so I think she came to terms with it and was able to joke around about it with me.
It takes a lot of courage to come out to someone, even a best friend and when said friend thinks your joking around, it’s pretty disappointing.
I think she doesn’t attract me that much (and, yeah, I’m straight).
I kinda understand that behavior. My family is extremely catholic, and I’m not catholic nor even christian anymore for two years now and I never told my family. I can support myself, I have money and a place to live (including my own computer 
), but I still love my family and I don’t want them to be disappointed with me. And I can hardly imagine me being disowned by them after telling that. It is a good thing I’m not homosexual, that would be even more complicated.
Now, a little bit off topic, one kind of discrimination which I suffered from is discrimination against nerds. I really thing that is a big problem with society, specially schools, which is neglected because the discrimination is mostly amongst kids and teens. Between adults, it usually is the other way around (they usually admire you for being intelligent). But the biggest problem is that kids are much more vulnerable than adults, and that changes your life forever. 
Thankfully it was over once I entered High school (and I hear that, in USA, high school is even worse with nerds than school, thank goodness I don’t live there 
). Oh, and my school classmates called me gay (this term here sounds more like faggot than homo), so, this is somewhat related to this thread 
gays play half-life?
fffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…
Bisexuals and crossdressers too! Take that crowbar to the face!
I think a lot of us had that kind of thing in school. For me, well, let’s be blunt about this: I have hyperhidrosis. I lived in a region of the United States where the weathermen use a term: “90 at 90”. That means, it’s 90F at 90% humidity. I sweated like a pig from puberty until 25 when I moved away. Sweat, of course, leads to body odor.
I think the thing that really hurt me the most is when I was in school and we were learning about bases and akaloids in science class. During a filmstrip presentation, they listed akaline substances. One they mentioned was lye which was used in the manufacture of soap. Yeah, I think you know what happened next. I bathed three times a day (before school, directly after school, and before bed) but it never helped. I was actually considering surgery to either remove the sweat glands, clamp off the nerves that caused sweating, or injections of botox to disable the glands.
But, I moved to Seattle where the weather was cooler. I still sweat, even when it’s in the 50s, but it’s not a shirt drenching, drip onto your desk smearing the ink type of sweat anymore.
But, I’m getting off-topic. I genuinely believe that, if you’re not a bully, you’re a victim and no matter WHAT a person’s personal defect (that is, a trait that is not in the majority), the bully will find some way to exploit that.
Which is why I loved the scene in the Eddie Murphy remake of Nutty Professor.
Buddy: "You’re so funny the way you take a person’s personal defects and flip it around. Like you pick somebody in the room and say, “Look at your foot,” and everybody Iook at it and start laughin’. That’s funny shit. You’re on your way! You goin’ to the top! You’re the next Lenny Bruce!
Reggie: “Why, thank you. Thank you very much. Glad you enjoy Reggie’s show.”
Buddy: “That’s genius. That’d even work with me doin’ it to you. If I say, look at Reggie’s gums and teeth. His mother had an affair with Mr. Ed. See? Everybody’s laughin’, cuz they can visualize your mother in a barn with Mr. Ed, ‘Look what I’m doin’, Wilbur. Look at me!’”
Everyone has a personal attribute that has the potential for bullying. The problem is, the bullies use it to hide their OWN personal defect (or should I say “trait”?).
A gay guy was also influential in the creation of the computer you’re using. Funny, huh?
People who know me do, people who don’t usually are shocked.
To be perfectly frank I wish people were more open about sexuality and their true thoughts towards people, it would make things a lot easier, personally. None of this double-talk bullshit.
On the topic of people getting bullied, it’s late and I’m not really too thoughtful at the moment, but inherently people are adversed to things they don’t understand. Most people don’t take the time to put themselves in someone else’s shoes or to even look beyond their own point of view on something, and they react to what they see on impulse. With some people it is simply ignorance, but with others often they just react that way because they really don’t know any other way.
That is sadly true. People are closed to different and to new ideas. They feel safer this way.
Well, we already are off-topic anyway (and maybe we could start a thread about discrimination?). I don’t know how it is in the States, but, here in Brazil, people are used to bully each other very often, like, all the time, but as a non-offensive joke, and people never take it seriously. At least that is the way people I know behave, and that kind of bully does not hurt.
But it is very different with kids in school. Paul Graham (a well known programmer) wrote the essay Why Nerds are Unpopular. I loved his opinion, and it made much sense with my personal experience with this. And it also applies to any (or most) kind of picking at school.
The main problem is not having what to do. Everybody knows (most) schools don’t teach anything, so kids just fool around trying to be popular. They pick on different kids because that can join them - they have something in common, someone in common to pick on. And no one cares if you pick on them, they have almost no friends (mostly only each other).
I had many problems with what here is the equivalent to junior high. Then I got lucky to get into a good high school. There, my roommates put an effort to learn. Not all of them, and not all the time, but they did. Sometimes they would complain about the teacher for not explaining with patience. And no one picked on me at all. In college, that was even more evident, I had many friends.
I spoke nonsense all the time (not anymore). I was always very distracted and talked to the wind. Yes, I’m still that way, I actually got worse ^_^. The more I think the worse I get. People laugh at me when they see me talking to nobody or doing things wrong while distracted, but no one offend me anymore.
My personal experience is one of the main reasons I identify myself with anyone who suffer from discrimination, homosexuals specially (I don’t see discrimination to black people around here). At some point I was afraid that identifying myself too much with homosexual people could make me homosexual, or that gay people would try to convince me to be gay. But it turns out you are who you are. That is a good thing. Being different is what makes us know and feel many things other people aren’t able to. We have abilities other people don’t. Even if that sounds a bit dramatic.
I am continually baffled by the extent to which this popularity contest and bullying of less popular children seems to go in schools in the US.
It’s called an unregulated society running on child mentality.
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That’s fantastic. So favourited.