Personal Narrative: A Personal Story Of Development

Introduction All human beings have a story that reveals their development as a person, events and challenges showing their progression as they age and grow. This will be a personal story of my own development as an individual and will examine the developmental concepts of family influences, friendship, and establishing identity. An examination of two meta-theory assumptions, active vs. passive development and universal vs.context-specific development, will also be done using examples from my own development. My Story My story of development is still only just beginning as I am still only 20 years old, barely at the beginning of early adulthood, there have been many challenges that I have faced. From the very beginning my family life was …show more content…
Thus, my brother and I were often left with family friends or relatives to raise us for the majority of our lives. This created an odd relationship with my parents growing up as I never saw them until late into the evenings. Through the lack of interaction I would classify my relation with my parents as described in class as resistant attachment (Yelverton). Whenever I was around my parents I always sought their attention and preferred to be near them but, everyday when I was left with my caretaker for the day I remembered crying would spend a majority of my time crying for their return. When my parents divorced I grew more distant with both my parents and this strain continued until my adolescence and affected my peer relationships immensely. The impact that friendship has on life is as large as that parents and family does, however, friendship is something that is more autonomous and dependent on the individual. Within our lecture and textbook one of the major topics that caught my attention was the discussion of popularity, the way an individual is perceived by their peers (Yelverton). The definitions were slightly different from what I understood to be popularity but nonetheless, the idea caught my …show more content…
Coming from a Mexican family, I was raised thinking that family was the one thing that I would always have to help me in any situation. The way I dealt with everything that life threw at me was by relying on my friends and family, knowing that I wasn’t expected to handle everything on my own. Had I been raised within a different cultural thinking frame, I’m not sure how I would have handled the stresses that came in life as the only support I knew I could count on until high school was my mother and