Samantha Jones: Everything Changed

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That kind of put a setback on me and my self esteem and everything ‘cause it kind of felt like – before I was kind of invisible, like I was just living through life, like skidding through life. And that kind of like made me more scared, kind of, and it isolated me from people ‘cause I didn’t want to get too close ‘cause I’m like, I’m going to die next month, I’m going to die next week kind of thing. The next week was, like, a holiday, so I just stayed at home and after that I went back to school. Everything changed.
I kind of – I don’t know, I felt like I wasn’t there. I was at school but my mind wasn’t there and I felt, like, I can’t tell my teachers ‘cause I’m scared, they might think, like, or I’m doing something. And that time as well, we were getting sent off to do work experience with old – elderly adults or, like, and I thought I can’t really go, I can’t – ‘cause you have to tell them if you have a certain illness and, like, it kind of put me back.
I got very close to one of my teachers and I wanted to tell her but I didn’t. I just felt like I should protect myself ‘cause I didn’t know how she’s going to react. And then a lot of people have different, like, ways of reacting and I didn’t want something – I don’t want to basically, like, our relationship to be different from when she finds out.

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