Interview With Charles Wilson-Adams

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“Don’t judge someone until you walk in their shoes.” These words were a great boundary line throughout the entire COUN 253 classroom. They also applied to the person I spoke with for my interview. I got the chance to interview a friend and a fellow teammate on the Track and Field Team, Charles Wilson-Adams. Charles is a straight black male living with ADD/ADHD. I had the privilege to share this project with him and see the world through his eyes. To begin, I have always seen Chuck as a very outgoing and outstanding student here at IUP. Every step of the way on and off the track he seems to make his presence known no matter what. What really surprised me was how very easily this seemed to come to him. After interviewing him it made sense why it seems second nature to him, ”In every aspect of life I work at bettering myself for the future…” The reasoning behind this is what saddened me, he works hard to beat the stereotypes of black males with ADHD or ADD. The stereotypes is something I was deeply interested and I asked him “What …show more content…

The feeling of happiness I received is from Charles, because he is in fact fighting a stereotype, and just by being where he is right now in life is a pure example of what people can do. A part that really bothered me about the information Charles gave me is the talk of how he has experienced an unconscious form of racism his freshman year of college. Charles experienced it in the form of sports

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