Self Reflection
Self Reflection
Self Reflection
Looking back when I was growing up, I couldnt help but notice
there was something that was different in me. I didnt know what it
embrace it.
unfolded and it was like you found your whole meaning, identity and
purpose in life. I remember this like it was yesterday and I can recall it,
as if I was sitting there and having the story being told to me through a
movie.
My cousin and I had run into the bathroom together to pee. At the
time, we didnt know any better, that a little boy and little girl cannot
mind that we are like three to four years old) She continues without
hesitation.
No, youre not a girl. You are a boy! How can you be a girl when
know I was suppose to be a girl and not a boy, thats all I know.
and she gives me a hug and tells me, like it was our secret oath that
I got taunted by family members and peers for the clothes I was
wearing. How I was standing, how I walked and how I talked. It was like
I was walking target. When it came to family functions, you can already
tell by the looks and the actions of some of the extended family
members and cousins, that they didnt like me, or like how I was
them. So I guess it was their way of trying to get me to get out of this
supposed phase, I was going through. I sometimes felt it was a scare
back from how I was acting, to how I need to behave and what I need
normal and fit into the gender stereotype of what a boy is and what it
is for a boy to do. But at times, when you think of normal its not the
same concept for different individuals. Everyone has their take and
live in, in some sort way fashion that definition of what normal should
their sex that was assigned at birth based on external genitals. The
identity aligned with anatomic sex. Children are aware of their gender
identity generally by age 2 years or younger. (Contemporary
Pediatrics)
culture, and can include name, haircut, pronouns, and clothing, among
expression, which typically does not persist into grade school years.
different from the sex they were assigned at birth, conveying this
1.Trustvs.Mistrust(Mcleod)
Works Cited
Contemporary Pediatrics, expert advice for todays pediatrician.
Affirming gender, caring for Gender atypical children and adolescents.
Ed. Joel Baum MS, Diane Ehrensaft PhD, Stephen M Rosenthal MD By
Ilana Sherer MD. 01 January 2015. 21 April 2017
<http://contemporarypediatrics.modernmedicine.com/contemporary-
pediatrics/news/affirming-gender-caring-gender-atypical-children-and-
adolescents?page=full>.
Mcleod, Saul. Simply Psychology. 2008. 2017
<https://www.simplypsychology.org/Erik-Erikson.html>.