Personal Narrative: My Rise In Middle School

I can’t go on ferris wheels, rock walls, or go up on the highest level of seats at AT&T Park without freaking out. When I climb on an actual mountain, I lose all my fears until I look down. One of my nicknames in the family is “mountain goat”. We were once on a trip to Arizona to meet up with my mom’s cousin’s family. They are so fun one of them has an afro and the other went outside climbed up a tree and jumped on the roof, and finally yelled down the chimney. To get back to the story, we were climbing one of the smaller mountains(which was still pretty high).We were seven-eighths of the way done when I looked down at where my family was. When I saw that they weren’t that far away from me, I looked behind them and saw how far down we were. I immediately turned and started freaking out. We were so close to reaching the peak, but I insisted that we head down. It’s really ironic that my nickname is mountain goat, but I’m afraid of

not have a fear of something, whether it may be a fear of heights or snakes.

My worst fear is getting shots. This arose when I was two years old, and had many visits to the doctor’s office because there were concerns about my respiratory system. I had to have many blood tests, which weren’t only scary, but also were painful. The blood tests came out normal, but it was later discovered I had asthma. After I had a severe reaction to tree nuts at around five, I had to have even more blood tests to determine if I had other allergies.

I was never the type of kid to standout in school especially not in the hallway. I was never too tall, never too short, not too scrawny, but the one thing I like to do is make people laugh. Yet even though that was very fun and all I still leave my legacy behind, which as weird, as this sounds, I was the one kid teachers never took seriously, but for the most part I never got that bad of a grade, in middle school(except when it came to 7th grade language arts class).

Rock climbing looks easy if you look at the right people. When you look at others you might think that you will fall to your death. My story isn't about death it is about courage, bravery, and most of all tough hope.

Introduction: Almost everyone has an irrational fear or two—of mice, for example, or your annual dental checkup. For most people, these fears are minor. But when fears become so severe that they cause tremendous anxiety and interfere with your normal life, they’re called phobias. A phobia is an intense fear of something that, in reality, poses little or no actual danger. Common phobias and fears include closed-in places, heights, highway driving, flying insects, snakes, and needles. However, we can develop phobias of virtually anything. Most phobias develop in childhood, but they can also develop in adults. If you

On the plane trip to Nicaragua, I had to face fears of mine. I have always been scared of even the thought of someone riding on a small plane, nevertheless me riding one. I feel as if they are going to fall straight out of the sky. But I knew that going to Nicaragua meant having to ride on a small plane. The first two planes where normal size planes, but the plane to Nicaragua from Houston was an extremely small plane. I was freaking out!

I'll never forget the day I climbed the Santa Fe College Ropes course. I was invinsible.

Whether you're afraid of everything under the sun, or fearless everyone has had the feeling of fear overcome I believe anyone can overcome a fear. I have overcome a few fears in my life and believe with determination anyone can. I've been afraid of heights my entire life and overcoming that fear took years. I never thought it was possible for me to be in a roller coaster until that one day I was in a situation that made me surpass my fear. I've been afraid of heights since I can remember. Some people will scream and cry whenever they are far up in the air. To a person without that fear it may seem funny that being afraid of heights is childish stuff, but to me it's not. I personally am not a person to freak out about heights anymore since I finally conquered it by getting on a ton of rides and just letting it

So I have a little bit of a fear of heights. As the thought of near death runs through my mind, I get nervous, very nervous. My heart starts to beat faster and I start to sweat. I start to envision my funeral, and then snap back to reality just in time to feel my stomach acting funny. It not so much of a fear of heights, as it is a fear of a long fall, to rocks far below me, most likely to kill me.

One of my biggest pet peeves is that I have a big fear of very high heights. Heights is one of the only fears I have, I would love to, to go skydiving one day but my fear of heights would hold me back.

If you want to know people fear heights, here's how. Some people fear heights because they do not want to fall in any sort of way off of what they are on, like a precipice, or crash. People with acrophobia will

Acrophobia – the fear of heights – is it an everyday irrational fear, or a real phobia?

In the end I learned to be cautious around heights because you can hurt yourself severely if you are not careful. I went through a time where I was very scared of heights but got over it by

There has been some research done on the fear of heights. Psychologists by the name of Gibson and Walk did an experiment in 1960 called “Visual Cliff”. The “Visual Cliff” experiment was an experiment to see if babies who were still crawling would cross a thick piece of glass that covered a steep drop off. They then put the mother on the other side of the drop off to call the baby over to the other side. Even with the mother calling the crawling babies to come to them, the babies still did not cross over the glass. This experiment shows that most humans if not all humans have acrophobia at least partially ingrained in our genetics. I believe this is part of our survival instincts.