Personal Narrative: My Personal Experiences Of Adolescents

I was able to interview a good friend of mine who had her first child at the age of 15. For privacy purposes I will call her “Katy”. Katy describes her teenage years as rebellious. Katy didn’t tell her parents she was pregnant until 5 months into her pregnancy. She would do her best to hide it and confronted it because her boyfriend came out. Her father was very angry when he heard the news so he broke her phone so she would have no communication with her boyfriend at the time. Moved by the mixed of emotions she felt at the moment she decided to climb out the window and run away. We’ve discussed in class and the book says, “An individual with a fully developed prefrontal cortex is able to inhibit the desire to act on such emotions as anger or rage. In …show more content…
She would wear her boyfriend’s black north face, a big jacket, to cover up her belly as much as possible. Katy says “Being pregnant in high school just isolated me into another category. I couldn't really bond with my friends anymore because they were doing things pregnant people shouldn’t do”. Isolation can be very scary at this age; this is where one could feel as Erikson described “Identity Confusion”. Adolescents go through self-absorption and egocentrism. Egocentrism is defined as “a state of self absorption in which the world is seen as focused on oneself.” (Feldman, 2013). This allows adolescents to question and argue back against people and ideas they don’t agree with or understand. It also makes them more hostile towards criticism. It is common in the Hispanic culture that parents are very strict and non-permissive of what their children do outside of house and school. While she was in her adolescent years, Katy’s parents would control when she could and couldn't go out and was not allowed to hang out with her friends unless her older brother was there present. Katy hated that her parents were over-protective and didn’t trust