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I am a lifetime survivor. I got choked up reading this article. I grew up in a small town and was told by my family, doctors and social workers that I had to keep my diagnosis a secret. Now 42 years later, I still live with that mindset. I remember going to the city for pediatric clinics every month and seeing kids like me. I also remember some of those kids never came back and it wasn’t until I was older that I realized they had died. I would love more information about this group.
This is a very interesting & enlightening article. As an LTS (age72) and 38 years with HIV, we often forget there are positives who have lived as long as we have who never knew what it was like to live without HIV. So many of us LTS's had a life without HIV that we often look back on & miss the sexual freedoms of the late 60's through the early 80's. I thought this was difficult until I read this article and realized there is a HIV population out there that has never experienced free love, Sad
This article meant so much to me because I am a lifetime survivor and everything I read in this article is spot on and me being from a small town of VA, made my upbringing a little different for me.
mwarriner
With all the advances in treating HIV, those of us "johnny come latelies" have obviously forgotten about the lifetime survivors. Glad to hear you're getting to know each other.
January 24, 2024 • California