Personal Narrative: I Am Carlos Lopez

I am Carlos Lopez. I am an intellectual, artistic, and socially challenged person. When I was at the age of three, I was diagnosed with asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism that affects one’s communication and social skills. There were times when I would engage in a conversation with someone and not know what to say to them; I usually wait for them to say a topic and go on from there, but it doesn’t always work because they usually say things that i don’t know about. At school, i am always in class and do enjoy talking to people there because I either know them or, since I see them everyday, I make an effort to know them. But at lunch, I am caught in a stampede of complete strangers and I always feel so scrunched up and uncomfortable being around all those …show more content…
To keep myself busy, I always bring a sketchbook to school so I make up some new drawings. I like to sketch things like video game ideas, I play video games often and I have an active imagination so I fused the two of them together. My works of art aren’t that well sketched and I never show them off to the public, but it matters most to the artist what he himself thinks of his works. Putting my sociality and art aside, I am considered one of the brightest minds in my school and my family. At home, I was always compared to my older siblings and expected more of. My older brother was in magnet, so I am in magnet, my sister was in National Honor Society, so I am in Honor Society. However, unlike them, I am both of these programs. In my school’s magnet program, it centralizes engineering, so I decided to look into that particular career field. I figured engineering would be a great career choice for me because some areas use creativity in one way or another, say if I want to be a civil engineer, then I would have to design objects before building them. It also uses the area of math and science, and I am a professional in those areas of study so it would be a job that won’t be as difficult, but still