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So you're saying the majority of kids are sexually active with multiple partners. This is really kinda sad.
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Dating is a large part of the social scene, whether you are adept at it or not. When teenagers get together, the first thing they talk about is dating, as well as the last thing and half the things in between. It just makes it harder when your peers won't accept your romantic situation -- or worse, focus on it to the exclusion of all else, as if you are a fish in a bowl, one who can do a really neat trick.
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Dating may be an area thing. I don't know, but I never heard of a lot of dating when I was growing up in HS. There were some kids who went together, but dating just wasn't that common.
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But the point is that as hard as it is for everyone, gays have an added level of difficulty. We all have scars, but gays have a few more.
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A lot of gays are quite personable, so I think they may have less problems socially than you are speaking of. I think heteros have more problems. There's more pressure to be good-looking, or tough, whatever the "in" thing is.
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Teens are not any more receptive of gays than they have ever been. The few openly homosexual or bisexual students in my high school are constantly mocked, constantly ostracized, constantly teased. I can almost guarantee that watching them has kept some others from coming out, from dealing with their emotions, which leads to the problems italiangm was talking about.
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I kinda figured kids wouldn't be. Kids are really mean. From my own experience when you get mocked a lot it teaches you to be witty, or funny. Something good can come from it. Course there will be tears, but adolescents do a lot of crying anyway because it's such a hard time.:(