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Lgbt Community Interview Report

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Welcome back friends! For today’s post, we’ll be having a Q&A session with a friend of mine who suffers from mental illness and belongs to the LGBT community. Firstly, I think I should tell you a little bit about him.

Lincoln Ripley is an eighteen-year-old transgender male who identifies as bisexual. He has been diagnosed with PTSD, ADHD, and major depressive disorder. He is a freshman at The University of North Texas where he is studying music education. He is also a proud part of the University’s Green Brigade marching band, which is perfect as his favorite color is green.

I sat down with Lincoln and asked him a few questions about his personal experiences dealing with mental illness and belonging to the LGBT community.

How do you feel perceived by others in your life?

“It depends on the day. If I’m having a good day I’m like, ‘Cool I got all my buddies I’m super supported and it’s a good time.’ But, there are a lot of days, especially if I’m in an episode, I feel like I’m super annoying to …show more content…

I feel like the media perceives people of any sort of demographic, like anything in the LGBT community or especially mental illness like, “Oh ok, you have some hardships. We have to protect you.” So it focuses more on your demographic rather than who you are as a person. And of course, me being trans and bi and having PTSD and all that other stuff affects my life, but I don’t like being seen as just those things. I’m my own person. I’m not like every other person with PTSD, I’m not like every other trans guy, I’m not like every other bi person. I have my own life and I feel the media tries to narrow people down to just their identity a lot of times. They don’t realize that I’m my own person and my identity doesn’t have to do with the rest of those things. It can affect it, but it doesn’t have to do with it

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