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1.1: Entering Adolescence
I believe I have emerged in adolescence in 2008. I have got my first period during the summer time and I was going on middle school years with puberty process. I have remembered that I was very emotion without even knowing the reason and it was from my hormones going on rollercoaster. It does match all the results from the textbook about process of becoming adolescence. -
2.1: Early Maturer
I believe I have start my maturing at age of 12, which the information from adolescence have match the facts about my behavior through my maturing. I was a rebel young kid through middle and high school, such having peer pressure and sexual activities involved. I did remember that I was weight 118lbs through middle school and gain to 130lbs and compare to boys that were still looked young. If i had chance to experience differently than before, I would have been more careful with my body. -
3.3: Abstraction
Between my middle year from 6th to 8th grade, I have grew up into having an idea of myself as very pretty girl, skinny with cool clothes and try to fit in group who are rebel. However, I have been changing my identity, such as trying to be country, preppy, skater due to going to different schools. I have thoughts of thinking of not know who I am, but many friends sympathetic for me to have social. While I was going through social ,my deafness conflicts by not able to fit the communication. -
3.1: Imaginary Audience
When I was 13 years old, I have believe identity as teenager and I have always think I am pretty, due my mother always keep me in confident. When I went to restaurants, stores and out public, I had constant thought of people looking at as being myself of being pretty and fun. I have notice that I had desired for attention, I have went through imagination of being music video singing, acting in movies, such as relating of their expression, like my pasts or fun experiences emotional. -
2.2: Niche-Picking
Through my adolescence time, I have had my aspect into involving with my friends who are in bad influence, due to being cool and I always avoid from people who are smart, take school serious, and have a good life. The reason of my avoidant because I felt shame of who I was during the time when I was struggling with my dysfunctional family and financial. I have got involved into art classes and I continue that as my interest or hobby, until I want something related that in my future. -
6.1: Parent adolescent conflict
At age 14, I was very rebellious due to involving wrong type of group of friends and my mother have always tried to keep me from leaving home. I always go out and social. It can be generation gap from between my mom and I because we don't understand each other, since we grew into two different generation. Also, my mother have always worries and concern about me, because it reflects her of me when she was younger and made mistakes, which it can conflict her ability of being a parent. -
3.4: Social Comparison
I have struggled with social comparison through my high school time, because I have had many friends during middle school. After all my friends found their new friends and found their fit of "social identity" or favoritism. I was very insecure by being viewed by people after I didn't have any friends, until I found few others who can compare my social issues. I have participate and found my confident socializing through high school, however the communicate is negative in my social comparison. -
4.1: Gender-typed behavior
In high school, I have went through stereotyped by gender into relationship. I was label as rebel, because of the group I made friends with, however it was about the visual of their selves. I tend to get their attention with my looks, my clothing style opposite from other style. They compare people of their looks of old and cheap clothes and new and pricey clothes, which they will assume of what is their "label", the nice looks are rich, good advanced while other looks is poor and dont care. -
6.3: Intimacy
When I was 15 and my best friend were very close and had each other back. I always encourage to follow my step as my assertive self with such activity, like go out adventure. She have always support my emotional, due to intense life problems, which she helps to advise and given positivity perspective of me. We have grown up as being our support for our love. -
3.2: Personal Fable
When I was going on 16 years of age, such as builded up as independent person and I have experience of going through with feelings for my friends, involving in uniqueness, and centrism. I have express myself in way often, by being too soft with my mother and not stable my express. After expressing, It has question my centrism by what they would differently of me. Which I have abstract my expression differently to maintain living in the world. -
4.2: Non-Gender Type Behavior
I was neutral through the moment with all other genders through same experiences, favorites, our opinions, socialize, etc. I have went through many stages of believing of what's equal, but it's all about personality separate from gender identity. I believe their personality does not have any relations to their gender. -
1.2: Emerging Adolescence
After I became age of 18, it was overwhelming by life changes with facing the reality, stable thinking of how life works, and figuring out my own identity, especially sexual identity. When I first went to college in Gallaudet, I have been struggling with my identity until I turned 21 years old. I am still not in my stable stage through my emerging adolescence time. All those results have matched through my age of 18 to 21, currently. -
6.2: Ego Support
I have had one friend who have always help with choices of clothing that fit for our social plans, like go out roll skating, dinner, school, etc. She given the comment to give confidence with such sexual way, like "hottie", "sexy", and sexual flatter comments. I do enjoy her comments and the way she view as my positivity imagine of myself and felt being attracted by. I do exactly same way with my friends during the years. -
7.1:Transition to High School
high school is almost similar to college, due to small population on campus, but independence, social and maturing. My changes through high school was becoming more confident, building network and lessons/skills as parallel changes. I have notice of amount of stress I was through high school by mainstream system and low support by parent. I have more stress going through transition in college, like responsible for independent and academic successful. I believe deaf community supports me. -
7.2: Extrinsic Motivation
My extrinsic motivation through my college years is more likely to avoid from consequences in failing the class, bad represents to academic, and financial cost of repeating class. Which it helps to keep in my mind by going through my extrinsic motivation. My story has happened to not going to class and not realize the consequence till close end of semester, by seeing the grade in total course, I have keep in mind that failing in class is a hugh consequence, into paying the class bill in future. -
Rite of Passage
I do believe the coming-of-age was 18 as ritual into going to real adult world with many explanation from my family that I will be entering the cruel world. When I graduated high school it has hit my transition into facing the reality life, because I have been going to school like it's normal for 12 years.(Joke: just finished my free trial) When I enter college, it was very different life stage, such as being independent in other state, have to have a job, have to be responsible. No ceremonies.