Stigma Shaped Me

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There are a lot of satiations in my life where I think have been stigmatized or vicariously stigmatized. The one that really impacted my life and shaped me the person that I am today, would be the time when I in muddle school. I was born in Mexico City Mexico, I immigrated to the United States when I was 10 years old. As you can imagine this is a very hard language to learn. The English language is one of the adversities I had to face as a kid. When I was in sixth grade, I came up to the teacher and asked her for a "sheet of paper" for a project I was working on. It was in front of the whole class, they al laughed at me including the teacher. The whole class thought I said a "sh** of paper", even though they apologized within the next days

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