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ha1ls, thrown food at in ihe cafeteria, and had verbal insults a11 day 1ong, yet she never gave <br />up. She had ihe str.ength that she needed to survive the schaol year, but I also lrnew a boy <br />who considered himself gay, and he was just as open. He was discriminated against like <br />you wouldn't believe. Hc had a more difficult time in dealing with it. At one poix�t during <br />the year, he told me a11d rnany of the other kids that did accept him that he was considering <br />suicide. We all tried to stop him and we got him help, but then the school year ended. <br />Thzs year we haven.'t seen hzm at all, and there have been rumors of what happened to him, <br />but whether any of tliem are true, no one is completely sure. <br />Dis crimination-Dis ability <br />I know that some people like to discriminate against people with learning disorders <br />because they rnake fun of ine. I have Asperger's Syndrome, a foz� of autism. Because of <br />my autisnn, � have certain limits. People have noticed those limits, so they give me a hard <br />tixne by making fun of ine. Last year, an 8�' grader started calling me a"retard" on the bus_ <br />A couple of time he kicked me and he also punched me. I know what it is like to be called <br />nasty names and to be hurt, because I have been discriminated against. <br />