Adolescence began during my middle school years and ended after I graduated high school. This period was a period of discovery. A time to define who I wanted to be and not who others wanted me to be. It started with a sailor's mouth, everyone at school was surprised that I went from quiet and shy to outspoken and a previously unknown personality. My mother stopped working just before high school and began to be involved in the lives of her three children, encouraging us as much as she could. However, in high school, I began to rebel against the clothes I wore without my parents realizing, drinking, and other activities that I would never have known as me. I also started playing more sports, pushing myself to succeed in school, and finding the friendships I wanted. The greatest moment of revelation and self-identity was when I realized that although I had chosen my faith, I had not chosen everything that was taught as part of my faith. The biggest problem was the controversial gay issue in my family. My family believes that you should be nice to gay people, but that they are sinning and you should not associate with them as anything other than acquaintances. When I have been able to form my own opinion, my beliefs differ completely from their opinions, so much so that my closest friends happen to be gay, and I find nothing morally wrong with their orientation. He