Dameer's Answers to The Silenced Boys Speak Out survey (original) (raw)

6. How has writing the story of your love for an older man changed the way you feel about yourself? I feel like I am as good a boy as all the boys around me. I deserve love and I am a person which someone else will like to listen to. I felt great that it was not something bad I was doing. I was just doing what my heart was telling me and I was not a bad person just that I listened to my heart. Greater than that I am feeling appreciated and valued. I was thinking all the time that why me God, Why am I always in trouble, I always asked why am I like that. But now I realize that there are billions of people on the earth and not everyone was asked to tell their story but I, a rejected boy, wrote mine and it was valued because I have a special life and story.