My Impact On Your Identity Essay

Impacts on your identity happen every day. It could be minimal or could change drastically. Over time, the actions you make are a part of you and will reflect on you, but you will never be that same person and your identity will develop until the day you die. Mistakes are important because life is all a learning process as you navigate through it. My identity was impacted by my experiences: my background, my family, and my education and employment. Moving from place to place, coming from a low-income family, my family's impact on my education, and my transference of issues onto others, all are a part of me and define who I am today.
I moved from house to house my whole life and even moved across the country and back. I’ve lived in over fifteen

My father has not been present in my life since I was young and even then he did not give me a father figure to turn to. My mother was there and supported us when she could, but she got blind-sighted and distracted by others besides her children in her life. In “How can family issues affect a child’s performance in school?” by Taylor Bennet, this helps provide information on how my familial issues could have played a role in my education. “Family problems — like major changes in family dynamics, financial instability, and sibling bullying — can have a significant impact on children. These challenges can put stress on a child’s emotions and contribute to loss of focus or acting out at school,” (2019). When I entered my junior year of high school I struggled to pay attention in class and even stay up to date with my schoolwork. Although some of it was due to my ADHD, during this time I was having arguments with my mom about the normal teenage stuff like freedom and was upset she was never home. She was and sometimes still is spending nights upon nights with her boyfriend without coming home. I find this has correlated with my poor performance in school during this

My mother relied heavily on my maternal grandmother for money and credit. My grandmother co-signed the house my mother bought for the mortgage and co-signed for three of my mother's motorized vehicles. My mother also relied on my maternal grandfather and when I was at the age of six, we moved in together and he supported us financially. My mom always struggled to bring in money, especially when she no longer had support from my father, and barely made 30,000 dollars a year. I think the rarity of getting things like desserts or gifts makes me very grateful for what I have and the things I’m able to achieve that I never had growing up before.
Poverty rates in education differ immensely when it comes to those who have no high school diploma to a bachelor's degree or higher. Only 4.1% of those from low-income families go on to earn a bachelor's degree or higher in college (Statistica 2022). The likelihood of completing college and earning a bachelor's degree from this survey because I’m from a low-income family is very low. There are many more that never even make it to college. Just this statistic alone makes me want to work even harder to prove it wrong and go against the likelihood of failure depicted in this