I was in my sixth grade when I started feeling something different developing, a feeling I wasn’t able to understand. I was completely confused and depressed. Since then everything changed and I started realizing that I was more attracted to boys than to girls. This feeling made me hate myself.
One day during Christmas, I invited my love that also was my neighbor. I cooked pancakes for him and we made love. Unfortunately my mum came back home unexpectedly and found us naked in bed. She rushed in and picked up the broom, started hitting us with it, so we ran as quickly as we could out of the house. We ran out naked and felt embarrassed since many people saw us before we got any help.
Later in the evening I went back home, there I found my dad waiting for me. He told me to take off my clothes and lay down on the floor, and then he took his belt and lashed me thoroughly. After this punishment, he warned me never to do such a thing again and he swore that he would kill me if I did it again.
A week later, my mum started bringing preachers into our house to pray for me so that the demons would leave me. They prayed for me several times but nothing changed.
Since it was something that I couldn’t change, I continued in fear until I was caught again, one year after finishing secondary school. Since then I have never thought of going back to my family.