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I was born
Much like the rest of your students, I have a birthday. I was born at Boaz and Albertville Hospital (now Marshall Medical Center South). Existing is pretty okay. -
Infancy: Emotional
I was securely attached and was never a really fussy baby. My caregivers always told me I was quiet and easy to calm when I was upset. -
Infancy: Cognitive
Piaget's Sensorimotor Stage: I was bad about walking everywhere at a young age and falling down a lot before I got the hang of it. My mother tells me that I was bad about opening cabinets accidentally by using them as supports and then falling down. This led to my first simple use of multiple words, "Bump head", which essentially meant I had fallen down in some way (not necessarily hitting my head, just in general). -
Infancy: Physical/Biological Development
My mother says I was actually walking quite well at nine months of age without holding onto things for support. -
Infancy: Emotional
I was always very quiet and hard to upset. My mother often says that if I had been fussy like my sister was, there wouldn't have been another child. -
Early Childhood: Cognitive
Piaget's Pre-operational Stage: My mother told me that I was very ahead of most reported marks. She says I was speaking in short sentences by the time I was a year old. I was especially bad about walking up to people, jabbing them in the eyes with my fingers, and saying "EYE!" before tottering off to go do something else. -
Early Childhood: Cognitive
As a small child, I loved animals. I liked looking at animals and being around animals all the time. I also loved being out of the house, especially when we went in the car. One of my first full sentences was "Go for a ride" according to my mother. This fits with what researchers say, as I was curious about the world and especially learning about animals and what made them the same or different. -
Early Childhood: Cognitive
One thing that really helped my language acquisition was my mother refusing to "baby talk" me. She wouldn't let anyone talk to me like that. She and my grandfather (a teacher at the time, though not for me) would also constantly correct my pronunciation until I spoke properly. -
Early Childhood: Cognitive
A time that made me aware of intelligence was when my mother was quite upset that she couldn't enroll me in kindergarten because I was too young. I remember her being upset about it and telling me about it in greater depth it once I was older, but as a young child it made me feel superior to my classmates (I wasn't, but I certainly could have entered kindergarten sooner than I did if I had been allowed and I feel like it would have done me more good than being in preschool for so long). -
Early Childhood: Emotional
My family described me as "easy to entertain" when asked. Even at a young age, I would play on my own for hours at a time. Around other children I did sometimes have behavior issues, but nothing too severe, aside from the time I bit a kid in preschool. -
My First Half Sister is Born
My father remarried after my parents divorced and had Chastity. I never get to see her because her mother's parents got custody of her on account of my father's and her mother's rampant drug problems. -
Mid-Late Childhood: Physical/Biological Development
I really liked to crochet as a little kid. I never actually made anything like I do now, but I would chain stitch yarn and pretend it was rope or mess up what my grand mother was doing by playing with her things. -
My Second Half Sister is Born
My sister has an inoperable brain tumor that has rendered her blind and essentially autistic. She cannot walk well on her own and she cannot handle loud noises. She has had multiple brain surgeries and surgeries on her legs, which were ruined by the aggressive chemo treatments she has to endure. -
Mid-Late Childhood: Physiological/Biological Development
I didn't participate in any organized exercise or sports, but I loved just running around and playing with my friends. I didn't think badly of exercise and gym class in elementary school was fun and engaging. -
Mid-Late Childhood: Cognitive Development
Piaget's Concrete Operational Stage: As a kid, I had an incredibly hard time learning to read analog clocks. I knew what time was and if I had a digital clock, I was fine. I just could not for the life of me read traditional clocks because I was so bad at counting by fives and then adding or subtracting to get the minutes. I was also bad about getting the minute and hour hands confused. -
Adolescence: Physiological/Biological Development
I entered puberty relatively early compared with others around me. I remember being so embarrassed because there weren't trashcans in each of the stalls in my middle school. I also had terribly heavy periods that were quite abnormal, so it wasn't abnormal for me to stay home from school for a couple days if it was particularly bad. -
Adolescence: Physiological/Biological Development
I got more exercise in this time, as I was and still am quite overweight. My grandmother made me do this, mostly, which made me hate it until I found the local Swim Team. I loved the sport and participated for years. -
Medical problems
In mid 2011, I was diagnosed with PCOS. This helped me get the medication I needed to help my periods and to help with other symptoms of PCOS, including extreme period pain, being overweight, and lethargy. -
Adolescence: Physiological/Biological Development
I had to learn to swim almost all over again. Competitive swimming has many very specific rules that must be followed or you will be disqualified. It was almost like earning a new way to walk that I never knew existed. My double jointed shoulders made butterfly and backstroke swimming much easier for me because I had more rotation in my arms than anyone else. -
Adolescence: Cognitive Development
Piaget's Formal Operational Stage: I learned to play chess from my mother's friend. I learned to use strategy in the game and was decently good at it for a while until stopping because I had no one to play anymore. -
Adolescence: Social
Sternberg's relationship classification: My closest relationship at this time was with a boy who lived in Michigan. We called each other boyfriend and girlfriend, but of course we were young and had no idea what love really was. Our relationship would probably be considered fatuous love, as we were committed to one another on a small scale, but mostly just over emotionally filled with passion and infatuation. It was cute but ultimately came to an end like most such relationships at a young age. -
Got My Dog, Rosie
Rosie is an important addition to this because she is now my emotional support animal. I was gifted her as a puppy and raised/trained her. She helps me with anxiety and depression by comforting me and encouraging me to not get stuck in my depressive episodes. She encourages me to go outside (to walk or play with her) when I can't otherwise force myself to do it. -
Father Passed Away
Hodgkin's Lymphoma. He was in prison and on drugs most of my life but cleaned up around the end. I was a Junior in high school. -
Early Adulthood: Emotional
My closest Early adulthood relationship would probably be my friend, Jessamy or my boyfriend. In this instance, I'll use her. She and I have a very secure relationship. Even when she moved to Georgia, we still kept contact and we still see each other when possible. She goes on vacation with us every year and we still think of each other as sisters, as do our parents/guardians. -
Early Adulthood: Physiological/Biological Development
My main mode of exercise now is longboarding from time to time. While this may seem like a gross motor skill type of exercise, I find it to be more fine motor skills. Keeping my balance and standing on the board isn't difficult, it's the act of adjusting your body in tiny ways to maneuver the board. Most of these movements are in the ankles and up to the hips, but the movement of your hands and toes are also very important for balance. -
Early Adulthood: Social
I'll do this one on my boyfriend, Caleb. Our relationship started out as Romantic Love, as we were quite afraid to committing to a relationship in spite of having known each other for four years at that time. We were quite worried about how others would see us and as such refused to commit. Eventually, we decided to just be happy with one another and finally committed to the relationship, making it Consummate Love. -
Early Adulthood: Physical/Biological Development
My current level of physical activity is low at best. I was pushed so much to exercise when I was younger that I'm just now getting comfortable with it. In addition to this, I simply never have time anymore due to school and other duties. I did fencing for a while and plan to get back into it when time permits. (Thats me on the left there) -
Early Adulthood: Cognitive Development
Piaget's Formal Operational Stage: I have to now plan and schedule my classes myself, keeping in mind that too many classes may take up too much time and hurt my grades, but also that not enough will effect my scholarship and make it hard to com back from. I also have to keep money and time until graduation in mind, making this a very in depth thought process at the best of times
