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Here's what I want to make you feel better when you feel down. Just remember that you are you, and nothing can break you down.

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Thanks Chelsea. You know, your the best person I've ever met and you always make me feel better. I can always talk to you about something and you can help me with it. Thanks, you're the best friend ever.

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Anyway, I hope you're doing better with that .. I'm always here to support you, thank you for talking to me about this. I found this picture to hopefully make you feel better. :)

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No its ok. I am better now. Truly what matters to me is how it is just so sad how people are forced to be who they aren't and are labeled as "different" for being who they are. They are judged by society and forced to become someone else. Society is so cruel. Society is stuck on its ways and will never change because that's always hows it's been. Society judges by so many characters. Racism, color, sexual orientation, beliefs, self love, sexism, etc. Society is so harsh and so judgmental I dont how people live with them selves.

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Although in the quotes, they seem so similar to our society. Threatening and even leading to killing people that are different or don't seem to fix that box of theirs they consider, "freedom" For example, in the F451 universe, Clarrisse--she was the first and possibly might be the only character was still considered normal but also curious. Even with her, she was killed. The government just couldn't allow her to be her. Clarisse asking--not doing, but simply asking about books stirred up a conversation because that was out of their "freedom" box, the only normality she was allowed to do was to fall in love with a family on TV, just like Mildred and her friends. But even in reality, this happens. Kids our age are exploited and shamed for liking things they want to like. Taken out of school even for expressing themselves freely. It's so unfair.

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I can relate to this because I was bullied, for being different. I tried to commit suicide and they locked me up because they called me crazy, unstable, mental. They said I was different, and I had to stop being "different". They said it was my fault for being "different" and I was bullied for being different. I was called crazy and mental. I was forced to see therapist after therapist and psychiatrists after pychatriast. I was forced to become homeschooled. I was outcasted by my own family for being "different". I had to fight for myself for being different.

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The text states, "I've got to go see my psychiatrist now. They make me go..."(Bradbury 20). In the book Clarisse is sent to therapy because she is "different". Society calls her "different" because she doesn't conform with the way society wants her to do.

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This is just so sad because society makes it to where if someone is different, they shun them and make them feel different. Society forces them to try and become "Normal" and it can hurt a person.

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A new study has found that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth who experience attempts by their parents or others to change their sexual orientation - often called conversion therapy - report higher levels of depression and suicidal behavior, lower levels of self-esteem, social support, and life satisfaction, as well as lower levels of education and income in young adulthood.

According to researchers with the Family Acceptance Project (FAP) at San Francisco State University, efforts by parents, as well as external sexual orientation conversion interventions by therapists and religious leaders contribute to multiple health and adjustment problems in young adulthood.

In the study, more than half (53 percent) of LGBT non-Latino white and Latino young adults, ages 21-25, reported experiencing sexual orientation change efforts during adolescence.

Of these, 21 percent reported specific experiences by parents and caregivers to change their sexual orientation at home, while 32 percent reported sexual orientation change efforts by both parents and therapists and religious leaders.

Notably, any sexual orientation change efforts - whether by parents alone or by parents, therapists and religious leaders - contributed to higher risks for LGBT young people, the researchers reported.

However, those who experience both parental and external conversion efforts by therapists or religious leaders had the highest levels of risk, they add.

Rates of attempted suicide by LGBT young people whose parents tried to change their sexual orientation were more than double (48 percent) the rate of LGBT young adults who reported no conversion experiences (22 percent).

Suicide attempts nearly tripled for LGBT young people who reported both home-based efforts to change their sexual orientation by parents and intervention efforts by therapists and religious leaders (63 percent), according to the study's findings.

High levels of depression more than doubled (33 percent) for LGBT young people whose parents tried to change their sexual orientation compared with those who reported no conversion experiences (16 percent). It more than tripled (52 percent) for LGBT young people who reported both home-based efforts to change their sexual orientation by parents and external sexual orientation change efforts by therapists and religious leaders, the researchers reported.

Sexual orientation change experiences during adolescence by both parents and externally by therapists and religious leaders were associated with lower young adult socioeconomic status, including less educational attainment and lower weekly income, according to the study's findings.

LGBT adolescents from highly religious families and those from families with lower socioeconomic status were most likely to experience both home-based and external conversion efforts. Those who were gender-nonconforming and who were from immigrant families were more likely to experience external conversion efforts initiated by parents and caregivers, the researchers said.

"Although parents and religious leaders who try to change a child's LGBT identity may be motivated by attempts to 'protect' their children, these rejecting behaviors instead undermine an LGBT child's sense of self-worth, contribute to self-destructive behaviors that significantly increase risk and inhibit self-care, which includes constricting their ability to make a living," said Dr. Caitlin Ryan, director of the Family Acceptance Project at San Francisco State University and lead author of the study.

"That's why we developed a family support model to help diverse families learn to support their LGBT children that we're integrating in behavioral health, out-of-home care, primary care and pastoral care in communities across the country."

"We now have even more dramatic evidence of the lasting personal and social cost of subjecting young people to so-called 'change' or 'conversion' therapies," said study co-author Stephen T. Russell, Ph.D., Regents Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

"Prior studies with adults have shown how harmful these practices are. Our study shows the central role that parents play. It is clear that there are public health costs of 'change' efforts for LGBT adolescents over the long-term. The kind of change we really need is family education and intervention."

The study was published in the Journal of Homosexuality.

Source: San Francisco State University

Conversion Therapy for LGBT Kids Linked to Higher Risks of Depression & Suicide

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Conversion Therapy for LGBT Kids Linked to Higher Risks of Depression & Suicide

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A new study has found that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth who experience attempts by their parents or others to change their sexual orientation - often called conversion therapy - report higher levels of depression and suicidal behavior, lower levels of self-esteem, social support, and life satisfaction, as well as lower levels of education and income in young adulthood.

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That's so disappointing .. I'm so sorry.

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I understand. I think it's crazy to think that this book was made in the 50s but here we are in the 21st century, talking about how it correlates with us. Anyway, there's more quotes on this, such as on page 97, Mildred's friends, or specifically, Mrs. Bowles, "Awful feelings, poetry and sickness; all that mush! Now I've had it proved to me. You're nasty, Mr. Montag," (Bradbury, 97) She's calling Montag "nasty" for simply reading?

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This is just so sad. I was looking stuff about this, and it gets more and more depressing. Its It's just so sad how much people mistreat others for who they are.

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I just hate how society forces us to fit into a certain mold, then when we break the mold and be who we want to be, we are judged, bullied, and made to feel different, outcasted. In the book it states, "I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always use to be that way....I'm afraid of them and they don't like me because I'm afraid."(Bradbury 27). In the book Clarisse is afraid of the other kids and society because they kill each other. She is afraid of society and they don't like her because she's afraid.

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On page 26, Clarisse responds to Montag's question about not being in school, "I'm antisocial, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed" (Bradbury, 26). Although Clarisse isn't called mean names, the idea's the same. Clarisse differentiating because she was curious, and in the future, no one was really fond of being curious and thinking outside the box.

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Actually it reminds me of a quote from Fahrenheit 451, let me send it ..

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Society tells you to be free and be creative with yourselves, but what they really mean is to fit their version of creativity. If doesn't fit their standard, you're immediately called hurtful names, hated and just shunned from everyone else.

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I know right?! It's just so sad how society makes us feel horrible about ourselves. It destroys us mentally and no one does anything about it. They're always saying, "Well, it's their fault for not doing anything..." yet we do and we try to get help yet they shut us down and make us feel worse.

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I just finished reading .. this is so heartbreaking and disappointing. It's crazy how society tells you to be free, but when you do, you're immediately judged :/

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I'll send it wait a minute...

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Hey Chels, did you hear about this? I just saw this on my feed, this makes me so mad and sad. ;(

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What happened?

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Fahrenheit 451, By Ray Bradbury
How Society Makes us Play Their Games, by Jeremiah Moua and Chelsea Lagusay