Coming Out
Growing up was not always easy for me. Throughout my childhood, I experienced multiple periods of bullying by different individuals. These periods of time imprinted emotional scars that continue to influence my actions today. Overcoming these scars have proved to be one of the most challenging personal battles I have ever faced. My experiences with bullying peaked in late middle school to early high school; a time when many are discovering more of who they are. To avoid providing more fuel to the fire, I tucked away certain thoughts, feelings, actions, and more deep inside. Parts of who I am turned into a secret, in which was kept hidden from everyone (except for one person). Words can never express the amount of emotional stress that followed to keeping a secret like this. I went through many episodes of confusion, anger, sadness, loneliness, and hopelessness. These episodes lasted all the way to college. For help, I turned to the internet. I began meeting people who were