The Day I Became Visible

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The day I decided to become visible! 9/24/11 Audience and Purpose: My Peers and how I have come to the ABP Revised Draft I remember the days when I was so shy, very timid, bit of a wallflower and content to stay in the background shadows. My youngest memories are of being a young girl of six years old. I was living with my parental grandparents but it was only supposed to be there for a short time but as fate would have it, it lasted for years, three and a half to be exact. The time at my grandparents was anything but happy. Because they had so much hatred for my mother they treated me very badly. The only reason I was there was to save my dad child support and responsibility. I was constantly in the way, pushed to the side often over my own sibling and only the bare minimum was done to care for me. Feed and clothe me was about the extent of their care. I went from a bubbly little girl to an awkward, out of place, shell of a child. I was invisible. So, my defense mechanism kicked in, I withdrew myself. I clearly believe this is where my life’s lessons began. I spent the next three years enduring this unloving, unsupportive environment looking forward to my weekly collect calls to my mother and wishing my dad would come to visit. From time to time he would come and I would be so excited only to be pushed and bullied by my older sister so that I spent very little quality time with my dad. Then one day my mother came for a visit and kidnapped me from Indiana and off to California we went. Once again, I was becoming happy again. Trying to come out of my shell and be what a lot of people call normal. I spent the next two years with my mother, older brother, little sister and my mom’s husband. Sure enough, the newness and feelings of happiness didn’t last and turned into another timeframe of withdraw. My mother’s husband was an alcoholic and drug

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