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3.2: Older Adult Health - Cancer - Death of My Great Grandfather
I have never met my great grandfather (my dad's side) because he died in 1891 from cancer and heart attack due to smoking at least two packs everyday even before I was born in 1990. -
4.3: Language - Deafness
I was born on December 17, 1990 but my parents had no idea that I was born deaf until I was over 6-8 months old when they tried to teach me to speak but I responded nothing. They got worried so they brought me to the doctor where they found out that I am deaf. -
4.1: Childhood Amnesia - My Earliest Memory
In my earliest memory, I remember I was at 2-4 age, my mother was holding me as my dad was waving at me with a big grin on his face in his military uniform before he went off to the work. -
6.2: Learning Disability: ADHD
When I was a little girl, I got on the medication for ADHD. I had a hard time paying attention or sit still. IEP granted me the expanded time for the quizzes/exams/tests at my school. -
3.1: My Health - Depression - New Mood Disorder for Me
When I was 12 years old, I was diagnosed with a mood disorder which is depression for the first time by my psychologist after many people have noticed that my behaviors have went worse. -
6.1a: My Family - Half-Brother
I grew up as only one child where I thought that I had no silblings until I was a teenager. At the time of my teenager period, I learned that I have a half-brother who was adopted by my grandmother's good friends. My father had him when he was in the high school. -
6.3a: Impacted by Death: My Grandmother's Death
When I was 17 years old, I was impacted badly when I learned that my grandmother died. The fact about the cause of her death have been bothered me for a really long time. It was the alcohol that killed her. I did not like to hear it but I have to accept it as a fact. It is still very hard on me as of today. -
1.1: Normative Age-Graded Influences- Brittney's High School Graduation
On May 2010, I graduated from Broadmoor High School in Boston Rouge, Louisiana. I was only 19 years old at the time of my graduation. -
1.1: Normative Life Events- Max's Death
On the summer time in 2012, I lost my best friend, a dog named Max Lane. He was dying from cancer where my mother and stepfather had to make the hard decision by put him to sleep to avoid more suffering. It impacted my life very hard because I had him since I was in the elementary school. -
5.3: Sexual Orientation - Sexual Fluidity
Some people have asked me about my sexual orientation but I don't really label myself because I do get attached to anyone based on my chemistry. I don't look at the gender at all. If it is a transexual man, woman, drag queen, or whatever. I have no problem with that as long as the chemistry is there. -
5.2: Identity - Deafness
I am proud to be identified as a deaf person with no shame. I was born that way which I am very used to it. -
2.1: Fertilization- Time to Make a Baby
I will be 30 years old at the time. It may be the right time for me and my fiancé to start a family. We agree that it have to be a planned pregnancy because we want everything to be prepared. We will have sex to make a baby together. -
2.1: Genetic Counselors - To be Prepared for Our Kid's Future
After I get pregnant, my fiancé and I will need to see the genetic counselor because my family have mental health in the gene which influenced me as well. We want to see what can we do to give a better and secure life if our kid will have the mental health in the future.
