Growing up Poz and trying to follow American Society's guidelines for dating and hooking up has been extremely difficult. The guidelines that we follow as a society in regards to dating and having sex weren't created for people with HIV in mind. They are not inclusive of a girl like me.
Truthfully, I started experiencing my first real feelings of exclusion from the rest of society when I started becoming interested in dating and learning about sex. Initially, when I first started learning about HIV, I thought that I would never be able to have sex. The first person to talk to me about HIV and how it is spread was my social worker at Children's Hospital, Los Angeles. Crazy huh, because you would think that it would have been my parents who first spoke to me about my experience. In hindsight, I am sure they wouldn't have known really too much about what to tell me either.
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