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My middle school years were horrible. While trying to learn and understand myself as a unique, neurodivergent person (I have...

I am living with an eating disorder. My friends and family have noticed the difference of my body across the span of eight months. My...

I want to experience my senior year of high school, get my driver's license, go to college and live the life I’ve missed out on the last...

My parents' divorce forced me to learn more about myself--and how to take care of myself. Life was terrible while my parents were...

I was about to turn 13 when I slipped and fell down the stairs, fell so hard I passed out. When I woke up, I was riding to the hospital...

I was fourteen years old when I was accidentally shot by my friend when his hunting rifle misfired. The pain felt like a bolt of...

“I’m afraid of people”, Maria, an 8th grade middle school student, told me as she sat in my school counselor office one sunny day. Maria...

In W.’s short life of eighteen years, she taught everyone around her how to get through hard things– and she did it with overflowing...

My hard thing was getting through the school year during a pandemic. It was the hardest thing I have ever faced in my life– it was not...

I was terribly shy– but I was not an introvert. I wanted to be a part of all the fun. I wanted to go out, hang out and belong to a group....