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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
It's probably real but anytime someone records (honestly a family discussion like this should be private IMO) something like that I feel they are staging it to their advantage to put someone in a negative light and make them look innocent. It seems he was talking about his dad in a negative manner on Facebook and while I'm not condoning the behaviour of anyone in that video I also feel that there's two sides to the story and being gay doesn't give someone the right to be manipulative.
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Huh? Manipulative? I don't know where you get that impression.
Listen, I think a little empathy is in order here. Even if he did post something negative, he's young and has almost no other outlet to express himself. It's not like he could go and have a heart to heart with any of these people. Even the one he did confide in (his stepmother) seems to turn on him in this video. Facebook at least gives him an outlet to connect with other like-minded people, as is the intentions of social media. It's not the best place to air dirty laundry about your family, but I think his options were limited. Think of how alone he must feel…wait a minute…now multiply that feeling by 100 fold and you might approximate what it's like to be him.
And he recorded it because it was an "intervention" staged by his family. Once he knew it was happening he recorded it to protect himself, as he says in the article, which it looks like was the correct reasoning and didn't work anyways.
I don't believe in a whole lot of traditional things in this world, but I believe that family needs to have your back no matter what (anything up to committing crimes against humanity). It's a lonely, lonely world if you don't feel like you have any family. I really hope this kids leaves this town far behind and finds a new family that he creates. This family seems dead to him.