Teens Growing Up
 teens growing up Growing up is really great but sometimes it’s confusing. As you get older, you get to do new things. Make more decisions.  It can be scary. Our bodies change. Our friends change. We feel pressure to do things we don’t want to do. Adults say, “Just be yourself.” But, what’s that? |
| In these pages, we will tell you how we are surviving. We are young people, right in the middle of growing up! We talk about our parents, our friends, sex, alcohol and stuff like that. It isn’t easy. But, maybe our words can help. We talk about new things every week. If you tell us how you are making it, and we pick your story to share, we will send you free gift.                               Tell us your story |
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| Alcohol | |
| Read what Antigone has to say. When Antigone got high, she had sex without thinking about protection. Just because she was high. | |
| “When I was in high school, you know, I didn’t know what I wanted to do, exactly. But I knew that I just wanted to be happy, and I didn’t know exactly how I was going to do that. I was in a lot of pain and the way I dealt with it, was, I started drinking. I drank, you know, I drank alcohol.” |
Antigone |
| At 20, Antigone stopped drinking. She got sober. When a friend asked her to go with him to be tested for HIV, she was sure she would test negative. Antigone will never forget the moment she was told she had tested positive. Tell us your story |
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| HIV/AIDS | |
| Pedro, who told his story on MTV’s The Real World, lived with HIV for seven years. In telling his story on MTV, thousands of young people say he helped them make smarter choices about sex. | |
| Pedro | “I used to really, in my mind, believe it wasn’t about me, that AIDS was a disease of older people, about another generation, about bad people, dirty people, about prostitutes, hemophiliacs and gay people and, you know, people who were on the outside of my world. I didn’t believe it could ever, really happen to me.” Tell us your story |
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