32, HIV+, Black, Has used crystal
Meth completely dominated my life. By the time I stopped using it had completely consumed me. I started using when I discovered Manhunt. I just found these super hot guys who were into partying and go over to their place and fuck them. And when I was using crystal, people would never ask me about my HIV status. Usually when you're going to have sex with someone, they ask you about your HIV status, and I used to be very uncomfortable disclosing my status after I became positive. So I realized when I hung out with guys who were partying they'd never asked. So I found myself hanging out with the drug crowd as opposed to the normal crowd because they never brought it up. It was never an issue, so that helped steer me more towards guys who partied. I was also depressed and sought out sex as a way to escape. I was getting all this attention from guys that I never had before, and had lost my job, so I found myself hanging out more and more and fell into the world of crystal before I knew it.
At first I created all these rules for myself — like never do it in the middle of the week. But then I broke it. Then I told myself I'd never do it before work. And then I did it. So at the height of my use, I was on crystal at least 5 days a week. By the end, I had lost complete control and was doing it anytime and every time there was an opportunity. And the thing is most people assume that using crystal will make you do stuff to get HIV, but I had HIV before I ever tried crystal. I used crystal to escape from the depression of having HIV, and find most campaigns and ads are for people who are HIV negative. I think people should stop equating HIV with crystal use. I got HIV from unsafe sex, not crystal.
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