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Hello, I’m alexander and I’m sixteen years old and i'm from costa rica
since i was born i've been suffering of the disease that affects my bones
it makes them
Weak, it's called
Osteogenesis Imperfecta
i don't know if you know it
Yes, so i can’t walk and i have to use a
wheelchair to move from one place to another
and so i know how it feels like to be different, like not to fit in a society
that wants you to be
an specific stereotype
and I’ve been bullied
i've been bullied, yes,
not very much but i know how it feels and it feels and it feels horrible
i know how it feels like when people look at you
and what they see first is not a person because
I’m still a person, no
they see the poor guy in a wheelchair and that's not true
They don’t think that i have
feelings
that i can think
That I can love
then when i was fifteen years old I told my best friend
that i'm gay
And she accepted it
she understood me
and most of all she supported me
Through this new situation
Then I told other friends and i told my family about it
and actually they
accepted it very very well more than i
thought they would
and then
Just everybody knew
and you know what
that's when things
got better for me
now i started feeling free for the first time in my life
and now i can say if I think if someone is
handsome
i don't have a boyfriend
but now i can say that I’m in love
with one person
Of the male gender
and i like to think that
we don't
love other people
because of their gender
We love them because of their heart
their feelings their brains
we love with our feelings
then
so what i want to tell you
to all of those bullies is that stop doing what you do
you're not doing anything good
umm
because as long as you're human
You cannot judge other people
that's not your job
That’s God’s job
And if any of us
uh... if we're uh if we are making a sin
Then we are the one who are going to our counts to God
not you
So if you're insecure or I don’t know
you're not sure about
Your likes
Or you're trying to hide yourself
you cannot do that
you are what you are
and that's what makes you different to everyone else
so follow your dreams
put all your effort in it
i'm actually trying to follow my main dream
it is to become a singer
a professional singer
and i know it sounds crazy but i know some day
i will
make my dream come true
And actually i would like to sing a song for you
It is called born this way by lady gaga
A song that
inspired me to do things i've never
Thought i could have done
“no matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian transgender life
I’m on the right track
baby i was born to survive
I’m beautiful in my way
Cause God makes no mistakes
I’m on the right track baby
I was born this way”
Hope you liked it
Yes, so, i think that i don't have anything else to say
my apologize I apologize for my mistakes
i speak spanish and i'm on my way of learning english
So I apologize if I made any mistake
and just
please
remember
You, remember
It ALWAYS
gets better
See you