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1.1 Entering Adolescence
That is the date when I first felt like an adolescent. I remember that I felt different towards girls and I recognized more social barriers that contributed towards cliques. I turned 11 years old in 2006. -
2.1 Typical Maturation
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7.1 Transition to Middle School
I transferred into middle school later than most. My sixth grade year was spent in elementary school due to that district's child education specifications. I think my experience matches the social awkwardness described in the text, if not more due to my peers being one year more accustomed to the environment than me. I had to discover my own social "clique" in order to belong. -
6.1 Ego support
This was my toughest period during my whole adolescence, I had just transferred from a 1 year stint at a hearing school where i spent a full year. Luckily, I had a close childhood friend who helped me transition back to middle school deaf life. He frequently helped me with my confidence. -
4.1 Gender Typed Behaviour
A girl in my class reacted unecessarily badly to the teacher kicking her out of class due to her inappropriate behavior. She constantly mentioned that the teacher did not understand and that she should be allowed to wear those clothes to school. -
3.1 Differentiation
My name is Sam Lundquist. I have a sister, mother, and father, I love them very much. I have several friends and we play together, I am the coolest around them. I think several girls are cute and I get shy around them. -
2.2 Niche-Picking
This date was when my mother got a job in Gallaudet University while we were living in Southern California. My mother and I went to work and school at California School for the Deaf, Riverside. We moved across the country to Maryland, that was when I was offered a choice between two schools; Model Secondary School for the Deaf or Maryland School for the Deaf. I ended up choosing MSD. I already favored MSD because I went there earlier during Early Childhood. -
3.1 Imaginary Audience
I chose this date because I just recently moved across the country from California, I had completely new peers and teachers. I was also in eighth grade. I am naturally not a very sociable person so I felt as if everything I said and/or everything I did would embarrass me somehow, so I aspired to be as quiet and invisible ad possible. -
3.2 Fluctuation
Today, my teacher made me soooo mad, she actually refused to talk with me about my F on my midterms! But luckily I saw Jane Doe right afterwards and she made me smile instantly, I acted normal around her. -
6.1 Parent Adolescent Conflict
I did not have a phone my entire grade school experience except for the last two years. I noticed that all my friends had a phone and was loving it, I felt left out. I begged my parents to buy me a phone but they refused on the pretext that they never had a phone in high school, let alone college. Finally, I convinced them to let me have a phone because I was a residential student, so I needed convenient communication to parents. -
6.2 Stimulation
This was the third year at Maryland School for the Deaf, I was involved in academic bowl and several honor classes. I had a close friend who participated in all those activities with me who helped me learn and achieve. -
4.2 Non-gender typed behavior
There was one girl in my math class that really liked math, she was the best one in our class. She even corrected the male predestined "math whiz". -
8.1 Rite of Passage
My rite of passage unto college was the week after my high school graduation on June 1st. All of the recently graduated seniors got together and rented a house in a beach city for a week. The rites of passage, for me, was threefold: graduation day was also my eighteenth birthday and it was my first time actually drinking alcohol with my peers. It was a great way to end grade school life and move onto college life. -
7.2 Transition to College
My experience in entering college was enlightening, I had much more freedom to myself. I quickly had much more of a selection of peers to dedicate my time to. It was tough at first; to let go of old high school "safety nets", but I later became accustomed to college. My experience matches the text by means of autonomy and responsibility. -
7.3 Intrinisic Motivation
This was the time when I was a freshman in Gallaudet University. Late during my first semester, I struggled because I started to have some apathy towards schoolwork. As my grades dropped, I realized that I pay for college, so I basically pay for a F. That got me riled up so I attempted my best in getting excelling grades. -
1.2 Emerging Adulthood
I chose this date for my future transition into adulthood because most people tend to turn into adults physically at aged 25. At that time, I will also be mist likely on my own with my own assets, so that will impact my maturity.