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Transition from living on a farm, rural nsw to moving to the big city Melbourne.
I grew up in Rural NSW, I struggled with my identity and sexuality during my youth. Nobody I knew growing up was accepting or had any education around those topics so I remember most of my childhood as being depressed, anxious and anti social. I moved to Melbourne at 21 years old and it was so hard I didn’t know anybody. I struggled to get a job even though I had a lot of experience, I had no friends here which was hard to make friends because it felt like everyone my age had high school friends and didn’t want to be meeting anyone new. And I didn’t understand things like pronouns or understanding my sexuality which made me feel like an outcast for the first 1.5 years of living here. I was so depressed, isolated and felt alone every time I tried to get into a service it was a long wait like headspace and it gave me anxiety to receive phone calls.
Now I’m finally feeling settled, I understand myself, my identity and sexuality and made some friends that helped me discover things about me and understand them.

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