College Essay About Coming Out Gay

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As people get older, they go through circumstances we all struggle through and cope through. Going through this commodity such as coming out gay, and my sister almost dying put me in counseling. Not everyone does counseling, but counseling is a form of therapy to correspond through hard times. People as young as 14 years old struggle with their emotion. Their personality needs some remedy to boost their audacity up in this world. Many people just like me struggle coming out gay. My struggles helped me who I became and how I'm such a better person now.

Let me take you back when I was 15 years old. I was struggling with something many others like my fight with. Ashamed I felt every day and that shame carried on till I decided to trust my brother and I then openly opened up and came out gay to him. I did worry, he would tell my parents and he did. Though I was scared and ashamed, my parents sat me down and told me not to be ashamed of myself and I can be my own person and I have no worries. I finally gave up being ashamed of who I am, I stopped hiding. We all go through stressful things in our lives, I just had to brave just like everyone else can and do.
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My sister decided one day to drink with her friends, and I was present and she had been rushed to the hospital for alcohol poisoning. I was blamed for her almost dying because I was there and I could have told not to drink. I got depressed because I was in trouble for a long time. Though she almost died, she is still here and I'm here too, and we are better than ever. We felt life was too precious and she quit doing imbecilic things. No one would ever want to experience a close death, nor a death in

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