Personal Narrative: Being A Child With Auditory Processing Disorder

An auditory processing disorder, is when your ears and brain don’t cooperate together, the ways in which the brain interprets sound through speaking and or sounds.

I have faced many different challenges in my life. The most significant and most difficult challenge is living with attention deficit disorder. I was diagnosed with ADD around the time I entered the fourth grade. I always knew I had the potential to do well like all the other kids, but for some reason I just couldn’t. After years of constantly getting distracted at every little thing, getting yelled at for being a distraction to the other children, and struggling to get through class everyday, I was given a little blue pill called Adderall to help me. It was like a light came on in my head. I still got distracted and lost all my energy sometimes, but it wasn’t nearly as bad as before. Being medicated helped me feel normal, but at the same time made me feel like I was different. As a kid I figured none of the other students had to take a pill to fix their brain like I did. I constantly put myself down

In order to get the help I needed, my mom had to pick me up two hours early from school every day and bring me to Anderson Elementary, where the speech therapist was located. Being forced to leave school early didn't help my social issues. The friends I had turned on me, and I became the weird girl. I no longer had people to eat lunch with, and invitations to birthday parties stopped arriving in the mail. I was mocked on a daily basis by people I had previously considered to be friends. Everyone had their own conspiracy theories about me; it hurt. Along with my new-found social struggles, my grades began to drop and I knew I had to make a

The challenges I go through on a daily basis is bulling from other students, being called names by my brother, myself not thinking positively, me not staying calm in situations, etc. The way I find strength to help me through my challenges is my mostly my parents, and my parents are, my mom Sue, and my dad

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In my lifetime I haven’t really had big obstacles that I have had to deal with, but encountered few minor problems that I’ve tried to fix. For example, I have had trouble with my grades this year and was terrified that I wasn’t going to pass any of my classes. I had barely slid by with the grades that I had gotten first semester. I did not realize that final exams were put to your semester grade and was worried that would have major effect on my grades. On top of that I was stressed that my first two quarters were combined.

This made me quit hanging out with friends however when I began middle school I started to discover that it is a typical thing so I started simply doing what I regularly would do and in the event that I had a fit of anxiety then I would utilize the methods I gained from my specialist. I had numerous individuals help me through this crucial step of my life and I learned through these individuals to be strong and even the most astute and most grounded individuals have difficulties. Another hardship I'm experiencing in my life at the present time is financial issues. My dad's company he was working for went out of business so he needed to begin another job that didn't pay to such an extent. He was them jobless for a couple of months until he recently found a new

For my second deaf event, I visited the AMC theater in Deptford and saw a movie with closed captions. I had few expectations about what my experience would be like, as my knowledge of closed captioning devices prior to that day was very minimal. The device itself came as a surprise to me, and there were several issues with it during the film, but overall the problems were negligible. It was inarguably a learning experience, and I am thankful for it.

Being a child with ADD I found school to be very challenging even at an early age. My first year of high school was a big leap from elementary and middle school. It was very hard for me to get use to the tests and work that were given to me. During that time I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do and that made it very difficult for me to really want to do well in school. Once freshmen year past I went on a trip to Europe which changed everything for me after that I knew I wanted to do something with international travel. I heard about a family friend who was involved in international business and how he got to travel everywhere and at that moment he was living in Brazil. To me that was everything and I had found my goal. I started to do better

Being diagnosed with attention deficit disorder has been a major obstacle and inspiration for me. I was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder when I was in first grade; from that time through high school I received services and medication to alleviate its effects. The day I entered college as a first year student I stopped taking that medication and I have never used the services offered at the Office of Students with Disabilities. My goal was to succeed in college on my own. My experiences with my disability have influenced to become a teacher.

One of the most difficult things I have ever Experienced has been My ADHD and when I was younger I had a hard time controlling my bowels. This was the cause of a lot of ridicule throughout my life and had built up a lack of confidence. The Problems were even at home, although my parents were and are very supportive my siblings were not as kind. My older brother had made me feel almost worthless and when my younger brother started to mock me it destroyed me I didn't like feeling like I was lower than my younger brother I wanted to be his role model. There were also problems at school it had effected my school work I wasn't able to perform to the best of my ability which left me feeling dumb and when I had to constantly go to Doctors appointments

I think the most significant change that I have made in my life is being more accepting of who I really am, and dealing with how I feel about a certain subject.If you’ve ever watched HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, you’d know how Larry David, the creator of Seinfeld feels about certain things.I’ve noticed that I have become accepting of the fact that sometimes I just don’t want to talk to someone and I really don’t need to feel the need to be polite and entertain people. Growing up,and during my college years I was very social towards my peers. Nowadays, I’m still social, but I draw certain boundaries. What I mean to say is that certain things don’t appeal to me, or better yet I don’t feel the need for certain social practices.

In my life's journey I have overcome many obstacles to be in the position I am now. I was born in Mexico and at the age of three my family decided to move to the United States of America. Although, the beginning of my elementary years weren't easy learning. The English language was easy for me since I did start since kindergartens. My hardships began in 2008 when in 2008 my family had to go back to Mexico due to the Great Recession. We lived in Mexico for a little over 6 months which led to me adapting to the lifestyle. My family came back to the USA the loss of knowledge and the disconnection to the English language only made school harder on me.

1. In school, I could never seem to understand as quickly as the other children around me. When I was 8 years old, I remember feeling sad, alone and wondering what was wrong with me. Then in my 3rd grade year at Wagner Holt Elementary School, my mother and father were told by a doctor what was wrong with me. They had been told that I had a learning disability called slow processing. Which makes it hard for me to normally process and comprehend information that I'm being taught. After hearing this, my parents quickly met with my teacher and doctor to discuss what options there were to help me overcome my disability. Next thing I knew, I was being told by my parent's that I learn differently than the other kids and that I had to be placed in a special class. Then shortly later, my parent's decisions had started me on a new challenging journey.

C.S. Lewis once said, “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” Everyone at one point or another faces some sort of hardship in their life. No matter how big the hardship is, how the overcome it tells a lot about them as a person. Throughout my life I had very few difficulties. I consider myself lucky to have the things I do, because I know others aren’t as fortunate. I grew up in a nice home, I have two loving parents, and my siblings and I have never had to worry if there would be food on the table that night. When I had to face difficulties in my life, they weren’t quie what people would imagine when they think of adversity. My adversities have tested my mental and emotional balance. The biggest adversity I had to face was from the end of my eighth grade year going into the summer I was going to be starting my freshman year.