Abraham Maslow, a humanistic psychologist, came up with a pyramid that acts as a guide for those who want …show more content…
It took me awhile to get through the belonging and love needs, and once I achieved it, it made me feel good about myself. The Physiological Needs was definitely the easiest to get through, and then the safety needs I got through. Coming to the Belonging and Love needs, this took me two years of high school to get through it. In the fifth grade, I got pulled out of public school for multiple reasons. First I wasn’t socially up to the caliber as everyone else was, and just in general I didn’t feel like I belonged in that setting. Once I came out and started homeschooling I ended up feeling a lot better. I was homeschooled all of middle school which was sixth through eighth grade. Once freshman year came around, I was getting tired of being at home all day every day. I ended up returning to public school that year, but I only attended for two periods of the day. My parents wanted for me to ease myself back into the public school system. By doing this, my parents turned to traditional homeschooling because that was my only way to do what I did. So I ended up doing half and half, and this continued during sophomore year as