article_snippet.sent: Just this month, Chelsea Manning started Tweeting and interacting with supporters online from prison.
article_snippet.sent: Chelsea Manning grew up with a dysfunction home life in Oklahoma, and that combined with bullying at school made Chelsea Manning retreat into denial.
article_snippet.sent: Chelsea Manning found solace by sneaking into Chelsea Manning older sister's room and trying on his older sister
article_snippet.sent: his older sister had a mirror that allowed you to see yourself under different lighting, which Chelsea Manning found fascinating.
article_snippet.sent: This caused Chelsea Manning to get into a lot of fights at school, his older sister says.
article_snippet.sent: After his older sister mother attempted suicide and his older sister marriage to Manning's father brokedown, his older sister moved with her mother to Wales.
article_snippet.sent: Chelsea Manning recently started a Twitter account operated using the telephone from prison, and this is his older sister profile photo, which is believed to be an impression of what his older sister will look like as a woman .
article_snippet.sent: Former life: Manning,had already secured permission last year to be known under the name 'Chelsea' instead of 'Bradley' Manning returning to Oklahoma after graduating and moved back in with Manning's father, starting an internship as a software programmer and designer.
article_snippet.sent: However a falling out with Manning's father lead to a period of homelessness.
article_snippet.sent: Despite a troubling experience in training, where Manning received school-like bullying and torment, his older sister went  to become an Army intelligence analyst in New York and prepared to deploy to Iraq.