I Want Them to “Lay Hands On Me”, Too

My personal church…does a lot of praying for people in the church that have cancer. I feel if I was to tell them I had HIV, it wouldn’t be the same prayer. It would be a prayer, but it would be a little bit different. You know what I mean?

Some churches very seldom embrace you living with HIV.

I want them to “Lay hands on me”, too.

They [church] are either judgmental or they will embrace you. When you walk into a church, it’s beautiful. It’s shining. It’s clean. It’s got the chandelier, but you get a lot of judgment in that place.

Stigma comes from family members…

…that ask their HIV+ family members to use paper plates and plasticware. They are probably afraid of catching HIV. They don’t have any knowledge of HIV.

My family is a huge support. If you’re living with HIV, and your family supports you, who cares about what anybody else thinks? But when you don’t have family support it can take you on a mind trip.

Family that supports you gives you that power to deal with people that don’t support you… “That is a difference, and that’s why I have been able to cope.”

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