Deviance

This week in Sociology, we learned about deviance. Deviance is when people repeatedly or excessively violate the norms of society. It's relative to the time and the place, and even though the connotation doesn't show it, it can be positive. A few days ago, a few kids from our school came in to talk about their stories dealing with others reactions to them being lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning. It was amazing to hear about everything they had been through up to this point. I'm sure that if I was in their shoes, I couldn't have dealt with it. It's amazing how brave and strong of a person they had to be in order to shake everything off. What's even greater about their stories is that they all said that Stevenson was a school that was very accepting and a place where it was easy to be who they wanted to be. It made me realize that I was very fortunate to attend a school where it was okay to myself.