Beyond your Background | Amelia Young-Lawson | TEDxEmerald Campus Youth

Hi, my name is A and to begin I'd like to tell you a bit about my story. I never really knew what childhood was. I'd experienced sexual violence before I was even able to understand what those words meant.At age 10, I was placed into foster care, ripped from what little family I had left, still reeling from the passing of my father a few years before. At 11, I struggled with depression with few friends to lean on. None of them could understand what was happening in my mind.From 12 to 15, I struggled with ex ...