Being a blond haired, blue eyed straight white male, you would think life would be easy right? My personal culture is affected by seven different aspects; Economic status, gender, abilities, age, location, sexual orientation, and adversities.
My whole life I have been underestimated, whether it was sports, school or anything else. I have always been undersized in sports. When i played football, I would be the shortest kid on the team. I would try my hardest, but no matter how good I did, people would push me down because of my size. I did great in sport camps, but because of the fact that I wasn 't very defined or big, i would never be able to compete with other players because the coaches didn 't give me a chance. When it came to school, …show more content…
Yet, the older I got, the less this seemed to be true and the more I realized I had adversities affecting my life. When I was was twelve, my parents separated and my father moved into an apartment out of the house. Soon after this, my brother started on a questionable path and struggled with many issues that affected his young adulthood. Personally, after that, I stopped caring and putting good effort into school. Prior to being a straight A student to a student with Cs and Ds. By the time eighth grade came around, I would play video games to escape and would escape briefly from my problems and feelings. Then, in ninth grade, I missed a lot of school and would stay home and watch movies. In tenth grade, I started to realize that I hit my rock bottom and stopped blaming other people for my problems and started to make changes and improve my attendance and start over in school. In eleventh grade I was set back with a concussion in football, but I had raised my grades to average and some Bs. Now, in my senior year, I am working hard to focus and become a good student again despite another concussion,with which I have decided to finish playing football. Because of my concussions, I struggle with some dyslexia, which is causes some school activities, especially English, be challenging. With all of these adversities, I am working to overcome and struggle through, have helped me to grow up and become independent to solve my own problems and to make peace my past and realize what I do in the present affects my
My whole life I have been underestimated, whether it was sports, school or anything else. I have always been undersized in sports. When i played football, I would be the shortest kid on the team. I would try my hardest, but no matter how good I did, people would push me down because of my size. I did great in sport camps, but because of the fact that I wasn 't very defined or big, i would never be able to compete with other players because the coaches didn 't give me a chance. When it came to school, …show more content…
Yet, the older I got, the less this seemed to be true and the more I realized I had adversities affecting my life. When I was was twelve, my parents separated and my father moved into an apartment out of the house. Soon after this, my brother started on a questionable path and struggled with many issues that affected his young adulthood. Personally, after that, I stopped caring and putting good effort into school. Prior to being a straight A student to a student with Cs and Ds. By the time eighth grade came around, I would play video games to escape and would escape briefly from my problems and feelings. Then, in ninth grade, I missed a lot of school and would stay home and watch movies. In tenth grade, I started to realize that I hit my rock bottom and stopped blaming other people for my problems and started to make changes and improve my attendance and start over in school. In eleventh grade I was set back with a concussion in football, but I had raised my grades to average and some Bs. Now, in my senior year, I am working hard to focus and become a good student again despite another concussion,with which I have decided to finish playing football. Because of my concussions, I struggle with some dyslexia, which is causes some school activities, especially English, be challenging. With all of these adversities, I am working to overcome and struggle through, have helped me to grow up and become independent to solve my own problems and to make peace my past and realize what I do in the present affects my