Forever An Awkward Adolescent Summary

In “Forever an Awkward Adolescent” David talks about his transition from childhood to his years in college. David could not walk until the age of three he was always being carried. He did not really have such a close relationship with them when he was young he felt like his condition affected his parents and he would have rather them be divorced. When he was entering middle school his best friend had moved right when they were experiencing some problems, they no longer had the same interest they outgrew each other. His family also decided to move across the country so he was going to attend a public school. For the first time he felt like he fit in a school and did good academically. He constantly felt like people praised his achievements because …show more content…
His parents did not think it was logical for him to go to college but his brother thought otherwise. He came from a wealthy family; his brother always made him feel like a normal person, his brother helped him grow up. In college, he had a column in the school newspaper and people complimented him without knowing it was really him and it made him feel much better because it was not just because they felt bad for him. He always felt a need of approval that motivated him to keep going. He still feels like an adolescent because only adolescents have hope for …show more content…
He was so pressured into walking and doing treatments one day he just did it. Then when he started to sort of lose his best friend he met new people with the same interests as him, he was just so used to being with one person when he did not really have anyone he had to make new friends, if he would of never fell apart with his friend he would not have found more friends. His best friend knew him for him and he does not mention ever feeling criticized or lied to by him, he just needed to let people get to know him more. He never let people get to know him for who he was so he was never sure of people’s reactions of him. He only ever trusted his parents’ reaction to things he did. He did not feel an encouragement from his parents to do his best in school so he just stuck to what he was able to since to him they seem happy with his grades. He went by what people thought like when he mentions that people graduate high school goes to college and continues school or go to work, he was just doing what everyone else does. He wanted to do something with his life, to feel useful or important. Him going into journalism is affected by the librarian and his English teacher. His teacher got him into the school newspaper and being able to have his own column but he was pressured into it, he did not really get it himself, he had