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Andrew Kauffmann: Awful & Transformative... Coming Face to Face with Oneself

Make Life Less Difficult

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The Struggle to Come Out as Gay at 18

I grew up in an environment that was very religious. And there was all sorts of condemnation around being gay. I think I inculcated what the culture, the community must of itself implicitly held true, which was to be gay, was to be inferior. But I don't remember a single standout moment where someone ran that down me as a message. So I internalized stuff that wasn't shared with me by my family. It's like a process of osmosis. There's something that's imprinting itself on. They are different, possibly you are inferior. LGBT plus youth three times as likely as non-LGBT plus youth to be experiencing common mental disorders or problems,. anxiety

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