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Prenatal-Infant
While I was in the womb, my mom never really wanted to eat much. She basically only ate things like sand because she had weird cravings. When I was born, I didn't eat sand, but I also didn't want to eat anything at all. I would pretend I was eating but just keep all my food in my cheeks for hours until my parents forced me to swallow the food in my mouth. My mom's prenatal food preferences (or lack thereof) caused me to not want food since my fetal stage. I developed physically as a fetus. -
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Infancy-Adolescence
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Young Toddler
My first word that I ever said was "Babushka," which means "grandma" in Russian. This shows that I was in the sensorimotor stage of language development. -
Toddler
When I was two years old, my mom would leave me to go to work with a babysitter. One time, I started hysterically bawling when she left. When she came back home hours later, I continued to cry and after a while, I didn't care at all that she was home. This shows that I had an insecure social attachment to my mom. -
Toddler
When I was three years old, I did not know how to differentiate between a deer and a cat. Where I used to live, my house was by a forest. The only animal I ever saw was a deer. I knew deer had four legs and were brown. One time, my parents brought me to a family-friends' house and they had a cat. Because the cat was brown and had four legs, I started yelling "Deer! Deer! (in Russian)". My parents had to teach me that cats also existed. I learned how to accomodate and developed cognitively. -
Childhood
When I was five, I played with hair gel that I found in the bathroom. I decided to put some in my mom's hair brush for fun/ no reason but I forgot about it. When my mom later used the brush, she screamed because her hair was full of gel and ruined. At first, I blamed the incident on a ghost but fearing my mom would find out I was lying, I apologized and told her I did it to avoid punishment, showing my preconventional moral reasoning development. -
Childhood
When I was in first grade, I practiced so much to get the role of Henny Penny in our class play. After hours of practicing the same tiny monologue, I got the part! This shows that I was on the industry side of Erikson's elementary school stage. I loved applying myself in class and the plays! I developed socially. -
Childhood
When I was in 5th grade, I was really bad at adding and subtracting fractions. I once received a "U" for failing a quiz so badly, and I cried! My cousin helped me learn how to solve the math fraction problems, and my math grades improved, showing cognitive development during the concrete-operational stage. -
Adolescence
During my freshman year, I always looked at how other girls would pose in facebook pictures. I kept seeing all these girls do the "duck face" and I thought it looked really stupid, but at the same time I wanted to seem cool and fit in. I tried to adopt my identity from the entire class of freshman girls who I deemed were cool, showing my social development and identity-finding based on Erikson's psychological stage during adolescence. -
Adolescence
Before turnabout, I wanted to take some hilarious pictures of myself and my best friend, Jeanne. I like being goofy but I was mostly thinking, "man, people will find these hilarious!" I'm not really sure if people found the pictures hilarious but I thought that everyone would be looking at them- I was wrong. I experienced the imaginary audience phenomenon and developed cognitively through adolescent egocentricism. -
Adolescence
On my 18th birthday, I tried to bargain with my mom to let me stay out past curfew, because 18 year-olds do not have curfew! She said "okay...fine." And I sensed some disappointment in her voice. I knew she wanted me to be home at 11 o'clock. It turns out that I did come home at eleven because I would feel guilty if she was disappointed in me, especially on my birthday. This shows the conventional stage of moral reasoning. Now, I stay out past curfew... hehehe.
