Twenty years of AIDS. I don't remember a world without it. It's had a very profound influence on my view on sex. My generation was the first AIDS generation.
I can remember a world without AIDs. It's dim and distant, but I can remember it. I can remember people thinking it will never happen to me and not using condoms. Then being surprised when they were diagnosed. I can remember people thinking kids like Ryan White and Eve Van Grafhorst were something to be avoided. I can remember a young prison guard being stabbed with a needle, being diagnosed and eventually dying.
Like you, AIDs has had a big impact in my life. I know it's had an effect on how I view sex. I just wish it had had the same effect on other people. Maybe they would still be with us today.
The sad thing is, people think it's over. They think it's under control. It isn't. New AIDS contaminations ahve gone up in Belgium last year, because people are getting careless. I know people my age, people who shound fucking know better, who don't use condoms, becuase, oh, AIDS is under control and it wouldn't ever happen to them.
I know, and it's horrible, because it will realistically never be under control.
Ryan White was a young boy diagnosed with AIDs. There was a movie about him with the kid who played Doogie Howser.
Eve was an Australian baby girl infected through blood, possibly one of the first.
I remember reading And The Band Played On a couple of years ago and being so angry and upset at the way the whole disease was handled in the early stages, too.
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Like you, AIDs has had a big impact in my life. I know it's had an effect on how I view sex. I just wish it had had the same effect on other people. Maybe they would still be with us today.
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Ryan White was a young boy diagnosed with AIDs. There was a movie about him with the kid who played Doogie Howser.
Eve was an Australian baby girl infected through blood, possibly one of the first.
I remember reading And The Band Played On a couple of years ago and being so angry and upset at the way the whole disease was handled in the early stages, too.