Biphobia is a term that not many people have heard, nor do they know what it means. Very much like the only-too-often screamed ‘homophobia’, it is merely the ideas and actions that are anti-bisexual. Surprisingly stats collected through surveys such as Writing Themselves In Again show that biphobia is more predominant and common than even …
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I am
Warning: this post may be a bit emo
Sitting alone in my room, I let the silence press in around me. My eyes are closed and the odd sounds meeting my ears from outside play on my mind, making me believe things that aren?t really happening.
I allow my thoughts to slip back to a dream reality; thinking about a life that seems so long ago
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I am 13, sitting in the same position on my bed while living under my fathers roof. The country darkness screams at me through the window while a dim light shines from my desk against the wall. Warm, ruby rivers are slowly running down my wrist and onto my bed sheets.
I?m 16, sitting in the passenger seat of a ute. It belongs to someone I don?t know, and my bag is beside me. My entire wealth in a single bag. We are travelling along the highway towards Adelaide, my friends and family behind me. We sit in a mutual silence. He is doing me a favour, I am unsure why. When we reach our destination he will grunt at me roughly, which I know means ?Good Luck?, and I will be on my way in the city.
I am 18, and standing at a lectern. My entire school is sitting before me, listening to me give the end of year speech. I have only been at this school for a few months, but I have quickly become a well-known name. I finish my speech and a round of applause scatters itself around the gymnasium.
I am 20, and the scars of my past still rest raised along my worn skin, the memories however have faded into a distant dream. Unhappy days from when the world was a darker place, I can happily say they are behind me. Each morning as I wake to the world, I know that I wake for a reason.
Sitting alone in my room, I know that there are people everyday who went through worse than I did, and need the help of those that care. I feel for them, and just wish they had been able to hold on for as long as I could. I wish that they could realise that they are the type of people which can improve this world.
