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I've worked a lot with kids who identify as LGBTQ or gender nonconforming, and they are unquestionably some of the bravest people I've ever met.
Becky Albertalli
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It's so easy as a teen to feel like everybody is having this normal experience - except you. You're on the outside.
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Love is bumping along together with the people in your life and making mistakes and trying to make them right by virtue of the fact that these are people you actually love; you care about them enough to muddle through it with them.
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My book, 'Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda,' is a gay love story. It's also a story about friendship. Quite honestly, it's also probably a 320-page product placement for Oreos.
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There is no universal gay experience. All stories are relevant, and all stories are needed.
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I've been fat since fourth grade and bullied for it, but I still knew I couldn't represent every kids' experience.
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Fat has a range of experiences.
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There are so many different environmental factors for just how safe it is for a kid to come out.
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As a psychologist, I'm painstakingly careful not to borrow my clients' stories for my fiction - but in a general sense, I'm very much inspired by all the teenagers I've been lucky enough to know and work with.
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Greg Berlanti is in charge of a lot of superhero shows on television. He is a literal superhero. He is absolutely brilliant.
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The Internet and social media can really be life-saving for some kids.
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I think we're all a little bit caught up in the drama inside our own heads.
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