My Story Kimberly Mirabella always loved to draw from the time she was young. She loved to draw on huge stacks of computer paper, both front and back. For Kimberly, drawing was an expression of who she was since she always felt different from the other girls. The other girls in the class would go ga-ga for all the big male celebrities of the day. This was something Kimberly never particularly cared to do. As she approached middle school, Kimberly found more of her identity. One of her art teachers encouraged her to take art as a potential career path. After some rather rough criticism of her work online, Kimberly felt an insecurity of not only her work, but herself. She began to question her art style, her fashion, her interests, and even her sexuality. What Kimberly 8 discovered about herself during her time in high school became integral to her future. Around the time she started high school, Kimberly had recovered from a period of depression. One day, she was working on one of the school floats for Spirit Week at a friend’s house when she decided to take a break. She lay there in the grass, coming back to that nagging question of her own sexuality, when it dawned on her that she was a lesbian. Everything then made sense for Kimberly, but she kept it closeted for only about a week before telling her family. She told her mother first, then her sister, her dad, her uncles and aunts, and cousins. Everyone was accepting, even her grandparents.
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