Vivienne Cass had created a theory of identity development which was developed in 1979. It consists of six stages that people will go through trying to identify themselves. The stages are identity confusion, identity comparison, identity tolerance, identity acceptance, identity pride and identity synthesis. Some people might go through a previous stage at different points in their lives. I believe I have gone through almost all of these stages. Throughout my life I have gone through these stages, but I had never realized it. When I was a freshman in high school I went to an all girl high school and wasn’t sure if I was interested in girls just because I was surrounded by them or because I might actually like them. Afterwards, I started to
