No One Ever Taught Me

This is about a young girl, that was raised by her mother and grandmother. They taught her all the import things they thought she would need to know, to survive in world. Unfortuantely there was one thing they never explained to her and that was the impor

 

No One Ever Taught Me...

 

Hi, my name is Laylanee and I was born and raised by mother in Chicago. My mother had to work two jobs just make to sure that we had a decent place to live, food to eat and overall the basic necessities. Since my mother worked during the week and needed someone to look after me, my grandmother volunteered to take care of me while my mother worked. I enjoyed spending time with my grandmother because she would always make sure that my homework was done, before she would teach me new skills such as cooking, sewing, and cleaning. The time that I spent with my grandmother was just as valuable as the time that I would spend with my mother. My mother would always spend her days off with me. She was always teaching me the importance of pay bills, balancing a check book and saving money. When I became of age my grandmother and mother both had a brief conversation with me about sex. My grandmother told me that sex was something that women did with their husbands, once they got married. The talk that I had with my mother about sex was a little different. She told me that if I couldn’t hold out on having sex until I got married. That I should use protection such as condoms, and birth control pills to prevent myself from getting pregnant. As I grew older and ventured through life‘s journeys. I thought I was well prepared because both my grandmother and mother had taught me all the things that would help me survive in the real world.

Once I made my transition into high school, I became very interested in boys. No one could tell me anything, because I was grown and I knew it all! It was not until my senior year and I was 17 that I became interested in this really cute boy in my class. His name was Bryan and he was 5’7 with an athletic build, hazel brown eyes, and he played on the schools basketball team. The senior prom was approaching and I did not have a date, but I knew that I was going to ask Bryan to prom. Later on that day I asked him to the prom. It took him a minute to answer but he finally said yes. I was so excited that Bryan was my date for the prom. I ran home told my grandmother and my mother that I had a date for the prom. My friends and I all decided that since we could stay out all night that we would get a hotel room and spend the night with our dates. After prom Bryan and I got caught up in the heat of the moment and had unprotected sex. A few weeks later Bryan decided to call it quits because he felt like things was not working out between us.

Several weeks later, I decided to go to the doctor and get tested for any sexually transmitted diseases. I explained to my doctor that I wanted to be tested because I had unprotected sex with my ex-boyfriend. I got my results back and my doctor told me that I was HIV positive. All I could do was burst out into tears and start crying profusely. Once I calmed down the doctor explained to me that I had contracted the disease by having unprotected sex. She told me that I should contact my former sex partner and have him get tested immediately. On the bus ride back to my house all I could do was think about how this disease will affect my life. I could not believe that I was now a statistic to HIV/AIDS. My actions have now added me to the list of people living in the North Lawndale community that are infected with HIV/AIDS. After realizing that I have to pay for the consequences of my actions and live with it. I began to wondering why my grandmother and mother never taught me about HIV/AIDS or other sexually transmitted diseases. The only answer that I could come up with was that maybe they did not know that these diseases existed. I wanted to take my life altering experience and help educate my grandmother and mother. I also wanted educate other families and young women throughout the inner city of Chicago. My mission in life is to teach others what my grandmother and mother never taught me.

 

Reviews

[sunshine]

Lint that was so good really! its deep thats a great thing to write about becuz it is exactly what most parent do nowadays i cant wait to read the rest

[Initium]

That's 1 thumb up. :)