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Conception
I was conceived. -
Zygote
I became a fertilized zygote. -
Embryo
Two weeks later, I became an embryo. -
Fetus
2 months later, I became a fetus and continued growing until birth. -
Birth
Thankfully, my mother did not consume any teratogens during her pregnancy and I was born healthy. I imprinted on my mother when the nurses first gave me to her. My sucking reflex helped first breastfeed. -
Rolling Over
I began to roll over by myself at five months. -
Crying
As a newborn, I cried a lot, and everytime I cried, my mother came right away to hold, feed, or soothe me. This was the trust vs mistrust phase, and I learned to trust the world, and my mother, to fulfill my needs. After a couple months, I stopped crying because I didn't want to break to established trust unless I really did need something. -
First Steps
I started walking a little over a year. This is a natural physical development for children. -
Peekaboo
I was still in my sensorimototr stage where I experienced things strictly through my senses. One of my favorite games at this time was peekaboo because I had not yet deveoped object permanence. -
Curiosity
Because I didn't speak much as a child, I often tried to discover things on my own through personal experiences and I would get lost very often. One time my parents found me in an electrical cupboard and another, they found my dangling out of a window. Because my curiosity was putting me in danger, my parents scolded me for it. That caused me to feel guilty about asking questions and trying new things in the future. -
Schema
I began to deveop my first cognitive schemata about the world as a child. As I grew, I bagan to assimilate and incorporate my experiences into these schemata. -
Potty Trained
I was able to use the toilet by myself displaying autonomy and self-control over my own body. I also became very willful and determined to control aspects of my own life.
after that, I entered Freud's anal stage where I gained pleasure from using the toilet. -
First Written Words
I first learned how to write and spell my name at age three. I was in the preoperational stage where I was beginning to learn and use symbols to represent real-world objects. I scribbled my own name on every thing in the house because I was egocentric in my thinking: only thinking about my name and myself beleiving that everyone else shares the same fasination with the letter M, A, and Y. -
First Day of School
On my first day of Pre K, I cried after my parents left me in a new place and in a strange situation. Also, because I had severe stranger anxiety, I spoke to no one until my parents came back and I hurried back to them. This is a secure attatchment. -
The Naughty Chair
My kindergarten teacher sent me to the naught chair for the first time for not raising my hand before talking. I was in the preconventional stage so I learned to always raise my hand after that no matter what so I could avoid punishment and humiliation. -
Moving to Jeddah
I moved to Saudi Arabia and experienced a new culture and way of life. I accomodated and changed my schemata to include my new experiences.
I also had to leave my grandmother to whom I was very attatched to. -
The Homeless
It was my first time seeing a poor homeless man on the street and my mother gave me money and told me to go give it to him. I gave the man the money not because I thought he deserved it, but because I was in Kohlberg's conventional stage where my moral judgements were based on what other people expected of me and what they taught me was "right and wrong." -
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First Grade
First grade is where I began to first produce work that is evaluated. Academically, I was up to the expected standards however socially and in situations where I had to speak to others, I did not excel. I deveoped an inferiority complex until about fifth grade where I felt anxious and scared to talk to others. -
Parenting
After having four kids and running out of patience, my parents change from being authoritative to almost authoritarian. They stop trying to convince us of their motives but much rather prefer obedient behavior. -
Advanced at math
My reasoning and critical thinking skills began to excel quickly in fourth grade, so I was given seperate math lessons that year in an attempt to furthur challenge myself. I was in the concrete operational stage where I started thinking more logically. At this age, I also understood the concepts of conservatio regarding number volume, and area. -
Fifth Grade
I began to overcome my social anxiety and fear of speaking in public. I became more confident around new people. -
Menarche
I got my first period and hit puberty and went through the physical maturation. Primary and secondary sex characteristics started to develop.
I entered Freud's genital stage and remained fixiated here for the rest of my life. -
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Adolescence
This was the time period between adolescence and adulthood. During this time, I was trying to figue myself out and find a suitable social identity by trying differerent roles until finding one that best fit me. I was struggling between identity and role confusion and could not find a stable sense of self. This lead me to have an identity crisis later in life. -
Started High School
Starting high school was the beginning of the formal operational stage where I began hypothesis testing and abstract reasoning. Higher level classes challeneged me and allowed to contrast ideas and manipulate objects in my mind without actually seeing them. -
Tutoring
After tutoring and babysitting my neighbor, I learned to think about the way I think and trace my thought processes in order to explain to the child how I reached the answer, This is called metcogniction and happens in the formal operational stage. -
Law School
After getting into law school, my sense of morality started to change. Because of the gray areas and blurred lines associated with law and it's "enforcement", my moral convictions started to weaken. This would be described as Kohlberg's postconventional stage where I start to examine and determine my own ethical principles and what is "right" and "wrong" rather than blindly accepting those of society. -
First Love
I fell in love but because of my dedication to work, it remained a platonic relationship. I could not balance work and self improvement with friends and family. I became more isolated from people rather than intimate and friendly. -
Mid Life Crisis
At 42, I looked critically at my life and realized that I hated my job and that not only did I not contribute to society, but rather, I worsened it with the type of lifestyle I was living. This is an example of Erikson's generativity vs stagnation. I was not content with the way my life was going, so I decided to find something I was really passionate about and pursue it. -
Buddhism
I became a Buddhist. -
IQ test
Though my crystallized intelligence was stable, my fluid intelligence and ability to reason abstractly started to decrease. I realized this when I was taking an IQ test in my fifties. -
Near Death Experience
Having almost died in a car accident, I took time to really look back at my life and contemplate my integrity or despair. I realized that if I were to die in the crash, I would have been ready to die because I was content with my life. So I made the concious decision to "step outside" the stress and pressures of society and try offer wisdom and insight to the next generation. -
Menopause
I reach menopause in my fifties and looking back, I regret not having the experience of children yet I am content with my decision. -
Alzheimer's Disease
At 69 I got diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease and had to be put in a home. -
Dementia
I developed dementia and, while walking along the beach one day, I got into a row boat and started to row away. -
Death
After a couple months at sea on a rowboat, I became completely delusional and started seeing nonexistant things in the water, so I threw myself in so I could join them and find happiness.
I drowned in the middle of the ocean. -
Reincarnation
I become reincarnated as a lionfish.
