Chelsea_Lee_PSY313

By Cheelee5

  • Birth of Chelsea Lee

  • 1.1 Entering Adolescence

    It was the morning of my family's vacation in Florida when I discovered hair in my armpits. This marked the beginning of my puberty when I was 10 years old. The sexual maturation came after the biological change. I did not have much of a growth spurt due to the shortness in my family. Afterwards, I began to feel the need to be independent from my parents to prove myself and my friends that I was a grown up. Also, I always slept really late and woke up late in the morning when I could.

  • 7.3- Intrinsic Motivation

    When I was younger, I really loved softball. I am not sure how it started but I became very motivated for sports especially softball. I started off with playing on leagues until I was old enough to play on a travel softball team during the summer. At first, I did not like it because it was a hearing team and I had a tough time communicating but I found all the reasons to enjoy softball. I couldnt get the coaching I needed so I kept practicing on my own with my dad's neverending support.

  • 2.1- Typical maturer

    I was 12 years old when I first got my period which was a little late than most of my friends around me at school however I've noticed that my school had a lot of low SES children including those who are Hispanic and African American. I've read an article that stated they go through puberty earlier than white people. Those low SES students in my school happens to be of those race and I've noticed that they experienced early sexual maturation and problem behavior.

  • 3.1- Imaginary Audience

    After starting period, I remember I would be more worried about people who walked behind me when I was due because I believed that they somehow knew that I was due and would be looking for bloody spots. The formal operational stage made me come up with make-believe situations in my head. I felt like I was always on the stage while walking down the hallways. When I started to think about what people were thinking, metacognition, I started to worry about all the things they thought about me.

  • 7.1- Transition to High School

    My experience was different than usual because I was in a small deaf school and everyone looked up to me. I was a big fish in a small pond so I never lost any self-esteem. In addition to that, my brother was a senior when I was a freshman so because of him, I was able to hang out with the seniors. I experienced the top-dog phenomenon when I transferred to a different school. I experienced the phenomenon during my sophomore year. I also worked my way up the "food chain.”

  • 3.2- Social Comparison

    During middle school, I went to a small deaf school so in my class, there were only two of us who were on the same intelligence level. That girl happened to be my best friend. I always compared how she interacted with people and how teachers interacted with her. In my head, I always felt that she got more attention than I did. People seemed to like her more than me and that definely made me jealous and encouraged myself to assess what I did differently and tried to be more like her.

  • 2.2- Niche-picking

    I've always loved music even though I had a deaf family. My friends would send me different types of music for me to listen to. I have always loved being expressive with ASL but I never found a place to channel it until I saw videos of music ASL translation on YouTube. After transferring to another high school, I finally had friends who can hear and sign music. After those gene enviroment interactions, I've discovered a hidden talent of mine.

  • 6.1- parent adolescent conflict

    My mom was always overprotective of me and I always got frustrated because I wanted to do things that she wouldn't allow me to do. I fought with mom at least 3 or 4 times a week and I always felt conflicted about that because I'm generally laid back and goes with the flow. I was becoming curious and wanted to try new things but mom always stopped me from doing things that were extreme to her. After some time, her expectations of me changed and we fought a lot less.

  • 3.3- Fluctuating Self

    I was very moody during high school. I am generally a very high energinized person who is very opmistic but then I'd find myself having sudden mood shifts to feeling sad or angry. There were usually no cause of the mood shifts. During high school, I always though that there was something wrong with me for having so much mood swings compared to others. Covering up my mood swings did not allow me think that others were covering up theirs as well so I thought I was the only one having this problem.

  • 4.1- Gender-typed behavior

    During high school (it happened all the time but it definitely peaked during high school), a lot of rumors were exhanged between the girls about gossip regarding relationship, sex, drugs, etc. Most rumors that were exchanged between my friends and I were about other people because my group of girls were innocent but we always find reasons to talk about other girls because it was fun and quite entertaining.

  • 6.2- Stimulation

    When I moved to a different school, I finally got the stimulation I needed from my peers. At the previous school, there were not may students who could keep up a decent converstation with me so I never got the chance to talk about variety of things that were new/different to me. At the new school, all of my new friends gave me the stimuation along with amusement, excitement, and plenty of new information. Sharing information and discussing new information was very interesting and really helped.

  • 6.3- Intimacy/affection

    During my early high school years, I finally developed more close friendships where I opened up myself more. I value close friendships because the high school I went was far away from my family and my family was big on affection. I never really shared things with my family until I got older so that's why I really cared about close friendships and their companionship. I went through a lot of mood swings and did not know why. My friend's physical support was really comforting.

  • 1.2 Emerging Adulthood

    After I graduated high school, I really started to explore my idenity. I was really conflicted with my sexual orientiation and who I wanted to be. My life felt really instable due to friendships, relationships, and school however I finally started to focus on myself and really become more self aware. Sometimes I felt conflicted between having to be an adult and still trying to be a teenager.

  • 7.2- Transition to College

    The transition from high school to college was different because I became stressed. I was worried about what I wanted to do and on top of that, I was an introvert so I struggled to make new friends. The friends I had were ones that I knew in high school. They started to have their own lives so it became more stressful for me. In college, to make friends, you usually would have to drink to be able to socialize so that put more pressure on me to do so. The independece part, I did well.

  • 8.1- rite of passage

    I'm a Catholic but I don't practice it so I did not do some of the religious practice. As for United States's culture, becoming 21 is a big thing. The legal drinking age is at 21 so when a person turns 21, they go out to the bar and buy their first drink. My birthday was the same, I went out to the bar with my friends and bought my first drink. Also, bars usually offer a free drink if you just turned 21 so that's nice. Peers over 21 usually go to bars so if you are underage, too bad.

  • 4.2- Non-gender typed behavior

    In my high school, there was a lot of diversity so there was a lot of non-genered typed behavior such as boys joining cheerleading and dance. Girls also played rugby. There were a lot of boys who were feminine in my school and girls who were masculine. It seemed normal to us until I transferred to a public high school and noticed how much deviances in gender typed behavior would be frowned upon.