Entering Adolescence

By Karinamm

  • 6.2- Ego Support

    a friend who expected me to be there all the time and expects a certain kind of support she wants. She would ask me for a feedback that helps her to maintain herself with her feelings and attraction from others. I was like her backbone

  • 1.1 Entering Adolescence

    The reason why I picked this as my starting Adolescence because my mom told me "I am now a teenager, a woman."

  • 8.1- Rites of Passage

    I am having a hard time with this one because I don't have any ritual beliefs or rites of passage of anything.. If I think of something, it would be when I was 11 years old and I learned that when I started my period I was allowed to finally shave my legs because I'm now a "woman" as my mother puts it but other than that there was no ritual thing i guess.

  • 6.3- Companionship Friendship

    I chose this because I have a friend who I known since I was 10months old. We are both very very close and did everything together. I chose that time, I was 11 years old, before she moved to Arizona for better Deaf resources compare to New Mexico. our friendship was very close, we were warm, trusting and very straight forward with our bond.

  • 3.2 Self-Consciousness

    When I was younger, I struggled with my identity as a Deaf person because I have a hearing family. So, every time I think of something or feel I need to decide something, I tend to ask my Deaf friends who have Deaf family. I am always seeking for their opinions and use it to shape my self-definition

  • 3.1 Imaginary Audience

    I chose this because I feel I fit n Piaget's Theory. Abstract thinks in that time frame 11-15years old. Also, I worry, think, and feel people are always watching me. Based on, how I dress, what my size is and my body image is.

  • 7.3- Intrinsic Motivation

    Throughout my high school years, I was very intrinsic motivated student, I always wanted to have great grades, when I found what what Valedictorian mean in middle school. I told my parents I will get there when I graduate and I want to be the top of my GPA, so I worked really hard to the top.

  • 2.2 Niche-Picking

    I chose Active genotype-environment correlations.
    I am always out seeking and into sports.

  • 3.3 Real Versus Ideal, True Versus False Selves

    I feel this would be a best fit for me, throughout middle school to high school. I attended to mainstream and will use my voice, use my hearing aids to hear and try to fit in (false self). During the weekends when I'm with Deaf friends, I would take out my hearings aids and be my true self. It was a confusion identity for me growing up. I still have that confusion right now

  • 7.1- Transition to High School

    In my time, I didn't feel a big change just a bigger school. I went to high school in a mainstream public school. I was so used to having one class with deaf ed and all my classes with other teachers and interpreter, never felt like it was a big differences. The only differences I experienced was being bullied due to being the "white deaf girl"

  • 4.2 Non-gender typed behavior

    Went to Aerospace Engineering camps. This applies to visuospatial skills, it usually applies to males but I have that ability. I excel in Math, Geometry, and Geography.
    I can be very aggressive and physical than most girls

  • 4.1 Gender typed behavior

    I have better self-control and able to focus even though I have ADHD but I am able to hide it and control it than Males do

  • 2.1 Early Maturer and Late Maturer

    The reason why I picked both was because I started my period at 11 years old and had a growth spurt which is early than most of my peers however late because I didn't developed breast, pubic hairs or body changes till late around 16-18 years old.

  • 6.1- Parent-Adolescent Conflict

    I picked this time frame because I was 17 years old and finally attending to NMSD. In that time, I was having identity confusion due to being deaf or not deaf enough because I can hear and talk. As I was attending in that school, i felt more connected in the Deaf Community and started getting really upset with my parents for not learning to sign for me.. still to this day, i have arguments from time to time about why didnt you sign.
    I felt it's a culture conflict

  • 1.2 Emerging Adulthood

    The reason I chose this date is because it was when I had to do things on my own. I made the decision to go to NMSD for the first time on my senior year. I argued with my parents to tell them I am lacking something about myself. So, I lived in dorms and barely saw my parents during that time I left to NMSD. Also, starting paying my own bills.

  • 7.2- Transition to College

    I do experience more depression when I'm in college. I'm more stressed out here than I ever was when I'm not in college. What made me more stressed out when I first transition to college was because I went to a College where my ex wanted me to go and my dad wasn't speaking to me. Then I experienced the first abused during my freshman year in college. It all happened so fast and my VR decided to not support me last minute and I had to end up leaving college the first year