Embracing Individuality: A Personal Journey

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Introduction “The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique” - Walt Disney Ever since I was young I thought I had to please people to be happy. I thought I had to do what other people wanted me to do because they knew me best. I have discovered who I want to be, and no one will ever be able to show me otherwise. Autobiography I was born on August 29, 1994 in Pleasanton, California. Pleasanton is a city near San Francisco. My mom separated from my birth father while she was pregnant with me and had a difficult pregnancy. I was born six weeks premature and spent five days in the neo-natal intensive care unit. I was released from the hospital when I was one week old. My brother, Justin, is eighteen …show more content…

Which is just a few miles south of Memphis, Tennessee. I started kindergarten at Walls Elementary where I was diagnosed with Dyslexia, which is a learning disability. I continued at that school all the way through fifth grade. I made some friends but no one like my best friend, Brittany. It was strange that we were so close friends because we had very different personalities. After being at Walls Elementary, I went to Lake Cormorant Middle School. Most of the people I went to elementary school with were at the middle school which is also true about the high school too. I met four more people who later would later become my best friends. Middle school seemed to me where I lost myself for a while. I turned into someone I know I would never want to be. When it was time to go to the high school it was not finished so we had to spend another year at the middle school. Around my sophomore/Junior year I started to find myself again. I started to not care what people would say or think of me. I realized that I was truly in love with Disney. My family and I had taken many trips to the Disney parks in the United States when I was younger but I do not remember them, we took a trip to Walt Disney World in 2008 but I did not seem to appreciate enough, so I started my Disney obsession. My grades were great, so great I graduated with having National Honor Society and I was in the top fifty in my

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