Memoir: Growing Up As A Teenager

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Growing up I was your standard Alexandrian kid whose life has taken a few dramatic turns as the result of a seemingly simple change in environment. Although, some of these changes to my environment may be viewed more significant than others, people are inevitably going to have a different reaction to things like changing schools, having your parents get divorced and so on.
By the time I was in the second grade, it had been made clear to my teachers that I was going to need additional help learning to read and that the public school system wasn’t going to get the job done. As a result, I began attending The Lab School of Washington D.C. where I would begin to receive the help I needed. But, there were only an estimated
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It had gotten to the point where I had to reach out to my parents and express my concern about my level of anxiety to make sure I could be properly taken care of. I soon began to take pills for anxiety. Now, although those pills were very beneficial to my anxiety they had their side effects. So, this left me juggling prescriptions trying to see which worked best for me and sadly left me empty handed and with more anxiety than ever.
Being the teenager I was, I took it upon myself to fix this horrific problem of anxiety. I had asked around my trusted social group if any of them had experienced anything along these same lines; and if so, what they had done in order to try find a solution to the problem. Once again, I was more disappointed than ever and left empty handed once again.
I had reached the point where I was almost willing to do anything in order to try and get rid of my anxiety. More desperate than ever, I expanded my questioning to more than just my close friend group; I had begun to ask kids in my classes along with other students I happened to be sitting with during lunch. These students all practically laughed as if there was an obvious answer to my problem. The responses I received were not what I was expecting at all, I was continuously being told just to take some time out of my day and to roll up a blunt (a way to smoke marijuana) and relax a

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