Adversity is a noun that I am no stranger to. At the age of 11, I became very ill with Scarlet Fever. It was the summer of my 6th-grade year and I was looking forward to Middle School. I broke out in what my mother thought was a heat rash, couldn't keep any fluids or solids down, and was rushed to the hospital after fainting and throwing up blood with a fever of 107.07 degrees Fahrenheit. The doctors told me if I had waited any longer to be seen I would have surely died. The misfortunes do not stop there. After that case of the fever, my parent began arguing and fighting constantly. I would go to sleep and wake up to the same arguments. My grades began to slip and I fell into a deep depression. Later that year my parents split up. After the
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So I ignored it, pushed it to the back of my mind where no one, not even this new Audrey could find it and I tried to live my life. Only I couldn't. I got suspended at least 12 times in my high school career. From skipping school to fist fights I just wasn't myself anymore. Senior year changed me though. After 11th grade and being suspended 3 times that year I had to buckle down. I wanted to make a change and start new so I tried. At the start of my senior year, I made a 4.0 G.P.A and was working at a local donut shop. I just got out of a nine-month relationship and was focusing on myself really and I was proud of my achievements. I was doing very well if I do say so myself. Until one day I was asked by a very popular guy from my school to hang out. I had hung out with him before and we were getting close so I didn't think much of it and I went to hang out with him. He kissed me and I felt electric. I couldn't believe it was happening and I was happy. Until he went to pull down my pants and I had to stop him. He did stop at first, but then he came back over and he began to kiss me again so I let him, and this time even with my objections and begging him to stop, to get off of me and not to do it he took advantage of me and had sex with me …show more content…
I hate myself for that night and I do not even know if it was my fault. The adversity does not stop there. After that I night I fell very ill with what I thought was strep throat. I know something was wrong when the antibiotics did not work. So I went to the doctors for an S.T.D check. My test all came back positive for gonorrhea and chlamydia the most two common but nothing could prepare me for what the doctor told me next " I'm sorry honey.." I knew what was coming next was going to change my life "... but it seems your test results have come back positive for herpes ". I didn't know how to take the news the only words I could speak were " Thank you" I tried to see if there was any legal way he could get in trouble for having sex with me and not telling me he had herpes and she told me no there wasn't. I felt helpless and alone. Now I really was just another statistic to be written down in some book because it's said that half of all black women suffer from herpes. So after already being looked down and told I would not succeed because the color of my skin I have to live with this statistic on my head. Just another number is what I felt like I would
So I ignored it, pushed it to the back of my mind where no one, not even this new Audrey could find it and I tried to live my life. Only I couldn't. I got suspended at least 12 times in my high school career. From skipping school to fist fights I just wasn't myself anymore. Senior year changed me though. After 11th grade and being suspended 3 times that year I had to buckle down. I wanted to make a change and start new so I tried. At the start of my senior year, I made a 4.0 G.P.A and was working at a local donut shop. I just got out of a nine-month relationship and was focusing on myself really and I was proud of my achievements. I was doing very well if I do say so myself. Until one day I was asked by a very popular guy from my school to hang out. I had hung out with him before and we were getting close so I didn't think much of it and I went to hang out with him. He kissed me and I felt electric. I couldn't believe it was happening and I was happy. Until he went to pull down my pants and I had to stop him. He did stop at first, but then he came back over and he began to kiss me again so I let him, and this time even with my objections and begging him to stop, to get off of me and not to do it he took advantage of me and had sex with me …show more content…
I hate myself for that night and I do not even know if it was my fault. The adversity does not stop there. After that I night I fell very ill with what I thought was strep throat. I know something was wrong when the antibiotics did not work. So I went to the doctors for an S.T.D check. My test all came back positive for gonorrhea and chlamydia the most two common but nothing could prepare me for what the doctor told me next " I'm sorry honey.." I knew what was coming next was going to change my life "... but it seems your test results have come back positive for herpes ". I didn't know how to take the news the only words I could speak were " Thank you" I tried to see if there was any legal way he could get in trouble for having sex with me and not telling me he had herpes and she told me no there wasn't. I felt helpless and alone. Now I really was just another statistic to be written down in some book because it's said that half of all black women suffer from herpes. So after already being looked down and told I would not succeed because the color of my skin I have to live with this statistic on my head. Just another number is what I felt like I would