OK, I'm a high school senior this year and I think my parents are some of the best I've met. Honestly, objectively speaking, they beat a lot of my friends' parents. Myself, I'm a band/computer nerd, AP classes, NEVER drink, that sort of thing. And I hang out with the "wierd" crowd: the 'goths' 'emos' 'nerds' 'otakus' etc, the condescension to whom isn't, at my school at least, as intense as movies make it out to be; I'm just trying to give you an idea of the kids with whom I hang out. I would also like to point out that the kids with the chains on their pants and skulls on their shirts and the like? They're the nicest people I've met and on the whole never drink, smoke, or any of that. That's mostly the more 'normal' kids actually in my limited experience. Anyway, I have an essay I wrote at 3am one night when I couldn't sleep. I had just found out that a friend of mine from middle school had been kicked out of her home for coming out as gay, and oddly that got me thinking about the things parents don't know they do that is extremely hurtful to their kids. So if your position is that the people I mention in my essay deserve this treatment, that's your prerogative to decide that, but for those who really love their children unconditionally, I ask that you follow my link to my essay. It would
really mean a lot to me to hear your feedback. Thank you =)
I apologize for how whiney/angsty it can sound, but that's the way our hormones make us think =)
We're Not Freaks