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Rough Childhood Research Paper

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I have not been through a lot in my seventeen years of existence. My mother endured an extremely rough childhood and she has done everything in her power to make sure that my sister and I have had the best life imaginable. Nonetheless, just because I was immensely sheltered does not mean that I did not undergo the rough patches that life likes to hurdle at everyone. When I was young, I loved to make up my own jokes, songs, and words. Everywhere my family would go, I made into a stage. When I began attending school, the teacher mentioned to my parents that it was brought to her attention that I was very wild and had way too much energy. Both the teacher and principal recommended I be taken out of the private school that I was enrolled in at the time and be put into a public school that had programs for kids like me. My parents were not amused; they kept me in the school and walked me the two miles to school so that I would be worn-out and still throughout the day. …show more content…

We continued on our walks, added in bike rides after school, joined as much sports as possible and got rid of naps. A few years went by and my mom became very sick; due to her hospital bills my sister and I could no longer attend the school that once thought of me as an issue. When I got to public school, the teachers kept asking my parents if they were sure they did not want me in the rise program or to skip a grade. When sixth grade rolled around, my teachers pushed me to take the advanced placement test. My mom did not like that idea because she thought that if because my last school thought I was nothing, she was afraid that they were right and that I would have failed.
At a young age, being told you had a mental disability, makes you different. I was not exactly such want a “disability” was but I knew the definition my parents gave me. They said that it just meant

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