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Understanding one's emotions and desires allows them to find a universal truth regarding their life.

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Celebrating inclusivity and feeling their emotions in order to truly find themselves and feel accepted.

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We are all affected by others' choices and our choices affect others.

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Loss of innocence can change the perspective of a viewer

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all it takes is another person to make someone feel like they belong

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Acceptance for those who are different and understanding the painful truth of life.

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The loss of one's innocence can affect their perception of the world

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Everyone is alone and is just trying to find someone to be alone with.

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Knowledge can result in the loss of innocence.

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we search for a place to belong, not realizing it is our attitudes and perceptions that allow us to belong

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Everyone wants to belong, but some people have to work harder to find where they belong.

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A sense of belonging can both make or break people

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A common way to deal with trauma is to not acknowledge it which only makes it worse

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finding your place among friends

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At some point in our lives we lose our innocence.

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Harsh truths change the way you traverse and view the world permanently.

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People act as people think they want others to want them to.

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Everyone Is just trying to find someone that understands them.  

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Everyone Is just trying to find someone that understands them.  

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high school can strip you of your innocence

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the expectations of high schoolers can drain someone of their true self

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As one learns more and gains more understanding, it results in loss of innocence

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I feel great! I really mean it.

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the lost of one's innocence will happen sooner or later

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High school influences ones decision makings, even if they aren't the right decision.

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No matter what we put in our bodies, it can never stop our sorrow. It only deepens it.

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Loss of innocence and searching for belonging.

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the idea of drugs can really change a persons set of mind  "I would tell you about the rest of the night, but I honestly don’t remember much about it. It’s all a very sad daze"

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Daren Plantz - theme statement 2 electricboogalo

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Daren Plantz - theme statement 2 electricboogalo

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he clearly seems to still have problems with everything going on around him and personal things like his love life and needing Sam his crush help him with his love life which i would imagine makes it weird. however the worst part is him being a wallflower and his tendency to be watching all the mess around him. such as his sister being pregnant. and saying "get out Charlie leave" (or at least that's what i think it is from memory.)

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having people you trust in your life can help your mental health

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everyone hides or drowns problems rather than face them

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Repressing feelings never solves actual issues because they don't go away.

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Temporary solutions to problems only cause more problems. "I would tell you about the rest of the night, but I honestly don’t remember much about it. It’s all a very sad daze"

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People often distract themselves to escape their problems

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Mental health is not something that can be fixed easily.

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Suppressing feelings with substances is not a cure, it's a block.
"From there you go, to you're going to be okay, to you probably should never do acid again, Sam went on to explain what she called "the trance." The trance happens when you don't focus on anything, and the whole big picture swallows and moves around you. She said it was usually metaphoric, but for people who should never do acid again, it was literal." (Chbosky 58)

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Lexi Montour- Drug use will never solve problems, and will only create more.

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Lexi Montour- Drug use will never solve problems, and will only create more.

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We are all imprisoned by our minds

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He is keeping his emotions inside of him and will come out sooner or later.

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Repressing feelings can cause stress and make you do things that will damage you.
"I hadn't looked at myself in the mirror at the party for a long time because my face was different and frightened me. Or else I would have noticed. My sister did help me trim up a bit, and I was lucky because everyone in school including Sam and Patrick thought it looked cool.
"Chic" was Patrick's word.
Regardless, I decided to never take LSD again."(Chbosky 56)

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Learning that others have had similar experiences provides comfort.

"Sam went on to explain what she called 'the trance.' The trance happens when you don’t focus on
anything, and the whole big picture swallows and moves around you. She said it was usually meta-
phoric, but for people who should never do acid again, it was literal.

That’s when I started laughing. I was so relieved" (Chbosky 58).

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Hiding feelings isn't good and can lead to bad things.

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Doing drugs just one time can change one's perspective

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More times then not, It is in our nature to do things no matter how many times we are told not to.

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Seeing other people in pain can help you understand your own

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One's naivety can can have negative effects.
"They had sex for the first time that night."
"When they were finished Brad started to cry really hard."
Patrick and Brad's naivety about sex effected both of them in a negative way.