I’ve learned at a young age that you can’t have everything you want. Even being the last born in my family, the baby as some call it. Growing up with my parents was kind of hard considering I had two sisters, who both kind of stumbled in their lives. My eldest sister, almost failed to graduate high school and didn’t go to college. She is now a mother of three children. two twin boys and a three year old girl. My parents thought she would do well and when she didn’t they were disappointed. My second eldest sister did very well In high school and my parents thought since she did very well in high school that maybe she’ll do well in college, so they let her go to SLU. She failed out and our parents were disappointed. They were angry that she didn’t apply herself and because of that they kind of stopped believing in us, well In me. They thought that since my sisters failed to accomplish what they said they would that I would fail too. They made me feel like I really can’t do what I want to do, because if my own parents think I’ll fail, then what is the point in telling me to go for my dreams? …show more content…
The kids bullied me for almost my whole middle school life, until 8th grade. The bullying kind of tore a part out of me, that was already shredded. I had to deal with my parents not really having any confidence in me and I had to deal with the bullying and ridicule in school. There was also the factor that I found out I had a learning disability called ADD, so my grades were not good but also not so bad. There were times I didn’t think I would graduate middle school and that just made me feel even more worthless. I got more into fighting MMA, my uncle taught me a little of what he knows, now I know I can’t beat professionals but I know enough to protect myself if needed. As I got better at fighting I got a little of my self-worth back, but for me it was different on an academic