Life Timeline

By awfulalli@gmail.com

  • Birth

    I was born in Texas.
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    Infancy

  • First words

    My first word was mom! My parents were very happy. However, my first language was Korean.

  • First steps

    I gained my first baby steps that were caught on camera.
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    Early childhood

  • First day of preschool

    I cried and was a shy baby back then.

  • First day of kindergarten

    I became more brave, however I was still sensitive and cried to small things. I still remained shy and struggled with speaking to classmates.

  • Moving to Georgia from Texas

    I moved from Texas to Georgia after my dad changed his job. This way I had to leave my hometown (it was okay because it was very racist there), and moved to Georgia where I felt more welcome (more Asians here).
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    Late childhood

  • Dad getting cancer

    I was young, and at first I did not understand what was happening. But, soon after I started understanding and mentally developed a lot in order to help my family emotionally through it.

  • Covid strike

    I became enclosed into my computer, and started to overeat and get bad grades. I stayed home and was very inactive, which led to me being bad with social development since I was limited with human interration.

  • Moving to Arizona from Georgia

    We moved to Arizona to get my dad treatment. I went through extreme bullying, and was criticized for my race. This was because my school population were primarily white, and I was the minority. I isolated myself and refused to speak with others for years.

  • Puberty

    I hit puberty and started being angrily easier and threw tantrums.

  • First day at Middle School

    My first day of middle school, I was at first excited, thinking it would be like partying. However, my hopes were cut short as there was a lot of mean girls.
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    Adolescence

  • Sister struggling with adapting in Arizona

    My older sister gained severe depression, and it put a lot of sadness in my family, as my dad also had cancer. Everyone had their own problems. I gained emotional development and learned to keep my problems to myself as if I informed a family member, they would be more stressed than they already were now.

  • My emotional changes

    Because of my sisters' depression she started to give up on school, this led to my family applying pressure on me, begging me to keep going because they would not be able to emotionally take it if both daughters were mentally suffering. So I pushed myself to keep my entire family together and ignored my own emotions and needs.

  • Moving to Georgia from Arizona

    Because of my sister's struggles with depression, we moved to Georgia in order to help fit her needs and recover her state.

  • First day at new Middle School

    I became popular and learned to be extroverted and nice. I started losing my shyness. The people here were open and I felt welcome because there were other asians.

  • First date

    I did NOT like the guy, I wanted to go home the second the date started..

  • Isolation

    Starting from 8th grade, I started to isolate myself and focus on my studies. This was because my sister attempted suicide and I needed to work harder to make up for her. My parents would beg me to not be sad like my sister, so I became extremely strict with expressing my emotions and kept my struggles alone. I fought academically with no passion, but only a drive for helping my family.

  • Gaming addiction

    I started becoming more emotionally insecure. I started relying on video games to vent my anger and stress in, which helped me distract myself from life. However, I soon became addicted to the distraction. I gained a strong vulgar vocabulary, which led to me getting into arguments in middle school. However, I lost this habit once I went into highschool.

  • First day at Highschool

    First day of high-school, I was extroverted. I learned to be more emotionally open to others and understand others, which helped me gain likeness.

  • Meeting my boyfriend

    First person I let out my emotions to, and I became friends with him. Although he litsened to me for 10 minutes, it helped me through and push harder.

  • Dating my boyfriend

    After ghosting him many times, I finally said yes and fell in love.

  • Graduation

  • First day at college

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    Early adulthood

  • Marriage

  • First child

  • Second Child

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    Middle adulthood

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    Late adulthood

  • Retirement