What Family Means To Me

You may have your own definition of what family means to you. Whether you use the dictionary or your past experience, everyone has their own meaning as to what family is. Family could mean someone you’re blood-related to; It could also mean someone you’ve grown up with. Family is different for everyone. To me, family is someone whose always there for you no matter what. I am still, to this day, very family oriented. In school, I never really had any friends. Yes, there were people I would talk to, however I had no “friends”. I was always quiet in my classes in elementary school and in middle school, for there was nothing to say or no one to talk to. I kept to myself, even with my family at one point. It was very difficult. However, I would always go home and talk to my mother or my sister, or at …show more content…
I had already known about my gender and my sexuality, and as I began to come out and got a little more comfortable with myself, other people in my school would make fun and tease me about it. People were so cruel and they would often yell and call me out in call and in the hallways. I sent an email to my teachers regarding this situation and my school counselor decided to suggest some LGBT community groups and some advice to help me further in my self-discovery and in my socialization. I didn’t join any of them, however I did join a groupchat for LGBT youth and questioning. It helped me a lot, it helped me come to terms with who I am and it helped me be so much more comfortable with myself. Once again, I felt like I belonged. I felt like I was in an environment that was filled with so much support and it also helped me communicate well with others. The community already gets so much hate for so many reasons, so to have these people who are willing to help me and who are willing to talk to me makes me feel like how I felt with my Pappy; I felt as if they were my family, for they were there for me when no one else