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Creating Stephanie Stephanie Abernathy PSY202 Julie DeLoria May 25, 2012 Creating Stephanie Brief statement on how I am going to explain to you how I was created with genetic makeup and the outside environment. Starting with where and when I was born-San Diego. Where was I raised if not where I was born-Illinois—why? What type of schools did I go to? Public and private—differences and impact they had for me. Kind of family atmosphere did I have? Big, close, support. Clubs or groups I belonged to-girl scouts, basketball, volleyball Changes there was from elementary school to junior high with a move to Las Vegas Experiences I experienced from peers and life throughout high school through adult hood. Almost drop out of high…show more content…
For someone looking in from the outside my childhood looked good but it wasn’t. For me it was tough and had a lot to do with choices I made as I grew older. John Locke one of the earliest modern theorists of human development said “the mind of an infant is a tabula rasa on which the world writes; all ideas comes from experience” (as cites in Witt & Mossler, 2010, Theories of Development, para. 4). As I take you through my journey of creating me you’ll find out why I am me and why that statement fits me. It all began when Kathy and Steve met, when Steve was in the Navy and was stationed in San Diego, CA. My mother was a runaway sleeping under the Ferris wheel at the carnival where she had also got a job when she and my father met. He kept coming back to the carnival and eventually convinced my mom to go back home. Not too soon after that they married and six months later they welcomed a baby girl. I was born June 23, 1978. I think maybe I knew then what the world had in store for me because I was three weeks late arriving into the world. My parents divorced when I was eighteen months old. There was even a custody battle over me in which my dad was eventually awarded custody. Not too soon after he then moved he and I to Illinois to be with his…show more content…
I held all sorts of different jobs over the years relationships not that many because I have always had long term relationships. After the stalker Ronnie was my first relationship he and I were together for 4years and we had my first child together Tralei. He and I didn’t work out because he was very jealous and drank a lot, which I had a baby to take care of and didn’t need to take care of a grown man who would get so drunk and pass out. The next relationship was with John who I was together with for 8 years. Our relationship was the one that tore me down emotionally and mentally. Although we had my second child, Caitlyn together and some of it was good but most of our time together was bad. Now looking back it was all one big lie to me. With our break up I hit rock bottom as myself, mentally and emotionally. I was so depressed and hated life; in front of my children I would have a fake smile. One day I woke up and said enough is enough I have let to many people abuse me take advantage of my kindness and now my self-worth “NO MORE!” So I looked into going back to school and making a better future for me and my children, so here I am getting my BA in Social and Criminal
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