| I'm an extrovert with my friends: I'm talkative, pretty rowdy,and funny. I'm fairly good-looking if I do say so. All in all,around people I know pretty well, I'm awesome, at least I think myfriends think I am. With my parents I'm more likely to bedepressed. I feel sad as well as mad and also hopeless about everpleasing them. They tell me I'm lazy and not very responsible, andit's hard not to believe them. I get real sarcastic when they geton my case. It makes me dislike myself as a person. At school, I'mpretty intelligent. I know that because I'm smart when it comes tohow I do in classes, I'm curious about learning new things, and I'malso creative when it comes to solving problems. I get bettergrades than most, but I don't brag about it because that's notcool. I can be a real introvert around people I don't know well.I'm shy, uncomfortable and nervous. Sometimes I'm simply anairhead. I act really dumb and say things that are just plainstupid. Then I worry about what they must think of me, probablythat I'm a total dork. I just hate myself when that happens. |
| I have a lot of friends. I'm good at schoolwork, I know mywords, my letters and my numbers. I can run fast, and I can climbhigh, a lot higher than I could when I was little and I can runfaster, too. I can do lots of stuff real good, lots! If you aregood at things you can't be bad at things, at least not at the sametime. I know some other kids who are bad at things, butnot me! Well, maybe sometime later I could be a little bad, but notvery often. My parents are real proud of me when I do good atthings. It makes me really happy and excited when they watchme! |
| I'm pretty popular, at least with the girls. That's because I'mnice to people and helpful and can keep secrets. Mostly I am niceto my friends, although if I get in a bad mood I sometimes saysomething that can be a little mean. I try to control my temper,but when I don't, I'm ashamed of myself. I'm usually happy when I'mwith my friends, but I get sad if there is no one to do thingswith. At school I'm feeling pretty smart in certain subjects likeLanguage Arts and Social Studies. I got A's in these subjects on mylast report card and was really proud of myself. But I'm feelingpretty dumb in Math and Science, especially when I see how well alot of the other kids are doing. Even though I'm not doing well inthose subjects, I still like myself as a person because Math andScience just aren't that important to me. I also like myselfbecause I know my parents like me and so do other kids. |
| I live in a big house with my mother and father and my brotherJason and my sister Lisa. I have blue eyes and a kitty that isorange. I know all my ABC's, listen: A B C D E F G H J L K O M P QX Z. I can run real fast. I love my dog Skipper. I can climb to thetop of the jungle gym, I'm not scared! I'm never scared! I'm alwayshappy. I have brown hair. I'm really strong. I can lift this chair,watch me! |
| What am I like as a person? You're probably not going tounderstand. I'm complicated! With my really close friends, I amvery tolerant. With a groupof friends, I'm rowdier. I'malso usually friendly and cheerful but I can get pretty obnoxiousand intolerant if I don't like how they are acting. I'dliketo be friendly and tolerant all the time, that's thekind of person I want to be, and I'm disappointed inmyself when I'm not. At school, I'm serious, even studious everynow and then, but on the other hand, I'm a goof-off too, because ifyou're toostudious, you won't be popular. But that causesproblems at home, where I'm pretty anxious around my parents. Theyget pretty annoyed with me when report cards come out. I care whatthey think about me, and so then I get down on myself, but it's notfair! But I really don't understand how I can switch so fast frombeing cheerful with my friends, then coming home and feelinganxious, and then getting frustrated and sarcastic with my parents.Which one is the real me? Sometimes I feel phony. I'll bea real extrovert, fun-loving and even flirtatious, and I think I amreally good-looking. And then everybody, I mean everybodyelse is looking at me like they think I am totally weird! Theydon't act like they think I'm attractive so I end up thinking Ilook terrible. I just hate myself when that happens! Because itgets worse! Then I get self-conscious and embarrassed and becomeradically introverted, and I don't know who I really am! Am I justacting like an extrovert, am I just trying to impress them, whenI'm really an introvert? But I don't really care what they think,anyway. I just want to know what my close friends think. I can bemy true self with my close friends. I can't be my real self with myparents. They don't understand me. What do they know aboutwhat it's like to be a teenager? |
