Leah -
The characters in True Notebooks don't exactly experience negativity from the cloths they wear because they all wear the same thing, orange jumpsuits. But I think the way they carry themselves and behave draws attention in negative ways though from their peers and the staff at juvenile hall.
I remember last summer going to visit my grandma, and feeling completely out of place.. I love my grandma to death but her husband ken is an ass. They are pretty old fashioned, so when I showed up on her door step with dyed hair, a nose ring and a fresh tattoo, ken went off on me about being "lady-like" and how the way I dressed and looked wasnt appropriate. I just told him to fuck off because he isn't my blood and he had no right to judge and critisize me the way he was. That was the only time I can remember feeling looked down upon for my apperiance but I stood up for myself, and that was the end of that.
Keke -
The boys in true notebooks have let their self doubt and influences effect them their entire lives. They grew up around negitivaty and hate and let that take a hold over them, these influences where so strong in their minds that they got sent to prison because them. I think growing up I was always more the influencer than the influenced.. All the stupid decisions I made were my own, they were my ideas from the get-go. I was very compulsive growing up, I did things without thinking about the consiquences. This did cross with my better judgement at times, but it was only after the fact that it occured to me I probably shouldn't have done what I just did. Usually when I got busted for it.