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Personal Narrative: What Does It Means To Be Someone Of My Gender

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What I think it means to be someone of my gender is always doing what is expected of a girl. Always being polite and caring when necessary, but also standing up for yourself and never cowering down. As for what I think it means to be someone my age, which is 20 years old, I think it means finally starting your life. Obviously your life has already been started but once you're 18 you start to get a little bit more of a taste of what you're going to have to deal with as an adult and I think that getting up to 20 years takes it even further. By 20 years old you've most likely started college, working a new job, or maybe even both. Attending an ethnically and racially diverse school, being white or any other race or ethnicity was never a problem. …show more content…

What your parents told you to do, you did it. I wasn't one of those kids that got to disobey their parent and still get away with it. Appropriate behavior is always asking your parents before you leave the house and if they have something that they would like for you to do before you go out and leave, you did it without any back talk or hesitation. Usually when I followed they way my parents wanted, I would get to do what I wanted to do. Like a positive reinforcement. The opposite of that was the discouraged behavior. When I was younger, and some of high school, I had this best friend who really wasn't the kind of girl you would want your daughter to hang out with too much. She talked back to her parents constantly, snuck out of the house all the time, skipped school, went to parties, and the list goes on. That's the kind of behavior my parents never wanted from me but because of my being her best friend, a lot of the time she would talk to me into doing those types of things. I knew better, and I never really wanted to, but I wanted to be accepted and thought “what if she doesn't want to hang with me anymore if I don't?” I wanted her approval. I’ve realized now that it doesn’t work that way. If you have to do those types of things to be “in” that's not the kind of friend you want around and it's better to listen to your parents. They just want what's best for you in the world and want YOU to be the very best in the world as

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