Personal Narrative: I Ll Wear My Pin

Growing up in a small town can lead to one having a very narrow-minded attitude. In a place where almost everyone is the same skin-color, has the same socioeconomic status, and follows the same way of thinking, anyone who fails to conform to the standard can be viewed as an outcast, subject to judgment from those who are looking in. I was someone who fell into this trap. I looked down upon people who were different from me, people who had vastly different ideas, dressed differently, or never tried to perform well in school. I failed to understand or welcome the distinctions between people, and never tried to get to know those who were so different from me.

      Autism is a disability that can create a barrier between the individual and his or her friends, family, and community. This disability often interferes with an individual’s ability to communicate, interact with others, engage in play or leisure skills, and to relate to the world around them. People with autism may exhibit repetitive movements, have unusual responses to people, be resistant to change and demonstrate aggressive and/or self-injurious behavior.

Let 's start from the beginning, I was a high school freshman who had been around the same people my whole life. Some might call it out of the norm for someone of my skin color. Although it was a public school in the suburbs of Houston it was infamous of being the “white school.” The school had just opened and there were only sophomores

The shocking win, defying late polls that showed Donald Trump with a modest but persistent edge, threatened convulsions throughout the country and the world, where skeptics had watched with alarm as Mrs. Clinton unvarnished overtures to disillusioned voters took hold.

The theme of prejudice and fear experienced by transgender and intersexual people can be observed all throughout Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She. At the very beginning of the documentary, this theme is illustrated through the murder of Gwen, a transsexual teenager. She had had sexual relations with two of her murderers who exclaimed, “I can’t be gay!” when they discovered she was a transsexual. They viewed Gwen as a boy pretending to be a girl, and beat her ruthlessly until finally strangling her to death. Her mother’s greatest fear was that her daughter’s transition might result in her ultimate demise, a fear that materialized into a horrific nightmare. Another instance of prejudice found in this documentary can be found in the story of Noah, an eight-year-old child with male anatomy that identifies with the female gender. Noah lives in the American

As a white male in today’s society, I never put much thought into how privileged I am already without even having to work for it necessarily. One of the reasons why I have never felt this way was due to being in a lower middle class family. As I have grown up, I have started to notice all the disparities in today’s societies between people of a different race, gender, and class. However, noticing the magnitude of the problems regarding race, gender, and class did not catch my attention until I was in high school, partly due to the fact that I became more mature in my metacognitive and observational skills. I started to notice what people were going through by the stories they told and sometimes by the clothes they wore, although I was never

Cheryl Chase article “Affronting Reason” and “Beards, Breast, and Bodies Doing Sex in a Gendered World” by Raine Dozier both illustrates the struggles of intersex and transgender face in society. Cheryl article focus on a child who is born intersex and now is dealing with her parents' decision of having a clitorectomy surgery. In Breads, Breast, and Bodies we see how transgender female to male dealt with society at a new point of view. Both stories reflect on the negativities each individual faced and also rise above the norm to embrace their new identity. Betray can cause trusting issue amongst one another, especially when that person is a family member.

I sometimes felt “too black” for the white kids and “ too white for the black kids. My black peers perceiving my abundance of white friends as “ selling out “,wanting to be white, or that i thought i was too good to be with them. But the disadvantage of being that “token black friend “ in the group i was automatically considered the connoisseur of all things black , like why Black people can use the N-word and white people can’t , or how weaves work , or if black people get sunburn. And at times i felt forced to view things a certain way in order to be true to my race. An example being the shooting of black men, Yes i do believe that some of the cases are racially motivated but I also sometime think it's just a jerk with a major comlex who has the go ahead to kill.But sadly, when you’re black- ish , you can’t just be a person with controversial ideas.Those these insecurities and fears consumed me for so long , i began to realize as i grew older, that I am more than my race , that the friends i choose are based of character not color, that I can y can express views , That I am not Black-ish , I am just black and proud to be part of such a growing and historical

During my early childhood days, I never realized that people treated me differently. At that time I considered everyone, whites, blacks,

At a young age, I went to a multicultural school, therefore I didn’t really see color and the racial differences in my school. I identified with everyone else because I hadn’t

It’s harder to interact with people not only because you find it hard but also because you’re different and people don’t like different. It’s harder to become socially acceptable. People treat autistic people differently than they would treat people without autism. They tend to do this because they view it as ‘not normal’. When someone’s told they’re different, they start viewing themselves differently.

Despite all this, I genuinely hope Trump will prove all of us wrong do as he said last night to, "unify our great county." I won't give up hope but as of today I feel unsafe, helpless, and defeated.

As a child I grew up in a middle class white neighborhood. Surrounded by my family of six and adoring neighbors all of whom seemed to seemr normal. It wasn’t until I went into to kindergarten that I was introduced to a black girl. I haven’t seen someone who had a different skin tone than me. No one in my family ever talked about

Oh man where do I start, so after what happened last night I’m sure a lot of us have mixed feelings I’m personally surprised and worried. I didn’t even consider Trump actually winning I figured Hillary had this one in the bag after the Access Hollywood tape. I didn’t care for either of the candidates but I saw Hillary as the lesser of two evils but unfortunately most of America disagreed with me. Now that the election is over I must say that I’m concerned with the direction that our country is going to take when trump takes office and the things he is going to undo. No matter what though thankfully the world isn’t going to end the sun will continue to raise no matter who is in charge of this country but I still I’m very worried about the safety and wellbeing of the people of

I went to a middle school that was not very diverse. Walking into my classes, I never saw another student that looked like me or came from the same place as me. There was only one other Indian kid that went to my middle school and we were put into different groups. Therefore, it was hard for me to find a group of friends to hangout with because I was different from everyone else. Eddie also was put into the same situation because he was not able to find anyone like him at his school. However, over time I broke out of my shell and made new friends just like Eddie. We both went through a stage where we did not want to go to school because