How I Grow Up Affected My Reading And Writing Skills

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The way that I grew up affected a lot of my reading and writing skills. Growing up as a kid I learned to read. I read all the time besides playing video games of course. I believed I was an excellent writer when I was a lot younger. As a child, I grew up having a ton of imagination which I can put down on a piece of paper. I always received A’s in writing back in elementary school because I had such a creative mind. I felt very confident in my writing. I loved reading all of the Harry Potter series back when I was in middle school. Every time I read a book, it makes me feel smarter. It helps my mind to think and also helps my imagination to go off in wonder. By the time I went to 8th grade, that’s when my reading and writing skills went drastically down. Playing baseball, I stole from second base to third base. The ball was thrown but instead of the third baseman catching it, my face did instead. I was knocked out, unconscious. Had a huge concussion and fractured my cheek bone. What really affected me the most was my memory. Ever since then I have had short term memory lost. Now I was unable to have such a great imagination like I use to. Whenever I have read, I wouldn’t be able to comprehend it. My grades for writing went down from an A’ to a D’. Sometimes even an …show more content…

At first I believe that I was an amazing writer as a kid, but when that one moment in baseball happened, it just changed my life forever. If I keep believing in myself and take all the help I can get in college, I believe I can graduate in no time. All the stories I read this year in college has made me believe I can write amazing papers too. I see the struggles people had in some of the stories and they all believed that they wouldn’t become good authors but they never gave up. Now they are amazing authors. I believe that if they can do it then I can do it

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