Chris Appleton
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But it was before I really even thought about sexuality.
You know, I was like 12.
I wasn't, I was just having a good time.
I don't know.
I was just happy to find something I was good at because I was told I was stupid a lot of school because I was dyslexic.
And dyslexia then wasn't,
really recognised, it wasn't really acknowledged.
So
It wasn't as though these things were said in a nice way.
It was a very brutal way.
I mean, I was like spat on and beaten up.
And it was just because, I mean, I wasn't, I didn't.
We're in like the playground at school.
Yeah.
And jumped when I left school on the bus.
It was just like relentless.
I didn't, I didn't understand.
I remember once I was walking home from school, I was with my girlfriends and we're having fun.
And these guys jumped me from the back and were punching me in the head and pushing me into the gates.
It was several of them.