Age-Graded Impacts, And Non-Normative Age Changed My Development

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When I think back to the events that shaped me, I can think of many that had a great effect on my life. The time period that I grew up in and still developing in, is a time of change. Change like an African American president, a women nomine, smart phones, self-driving cars, where to start. To help analyze what influenced my development I will break it down into normative age-graded influences, normative history-graded influences, and non-normative life event. The normative age-graded influence may not be a surprise but it was one of the biggest age-graded influence in America. When at 16 I got my diver license, it changed my development forever. The mindset, the freedom, but most of all the responsibility. I could kill people, that simple. …show more content…

That is the wide spread use and availability of the smart phone. I watched my mother get the first IPhone I was young and would play games on it and knew how to use it. Smart phones really changed my development through high school. I would text friends and not call them. I had and still have a Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat. All this social media and texting cut down on the face to face talks I would have had with people. Even to this day I would rather shot someone an email then talk to them face to face, it’s more comfortable. Smart phones also tie into my age-graded influence. When I started to drive if I didn’t 100 percent know how to get to a place I would use GPS on my smartphone. The problem is I don’t know my way around my home town. My dad asked me to pick up some tools for him a couple of months ago. He told me directions to where the place was, he used street names and land markers. When he finished telling me this, I still didn’t know where it was. My dad looked at me and said,” when I was your age I knew where everything was, if I didn’t know where a place was I would try and sometimes find new places along the way”. I told him how I just use my GPS. I never remember where the places are because I just follow the voice. I don’t need to remember where places are anymore and that’s because of Smart Phones. Our generation is different from every generation beforehand …show more content…

I was in third grade leaving school walking to my bus one early fall afternoon. I was walking alone and out of nowhere a kid that I didn’t know said,” look at Dumbo, why is his ears so big”. This really hurt me, as a happy eight year old I didn’t understand why someone would be so mean. I told my parents about what the kid said to me. My parents knew my ears where not normal, they never said anything and only wanted to address it if I thought it was a problem. It was from then on that everyone including me noticed that my ears where big. I didn’t like my ears at all and parents knew that they didn’t want me entering into adulthood with this insecurity, so they looked into what they could do. They took me to three different plastic surgeons all the best in the area. They let me pick which one would do my operation to fix my ears. I picked Dr. Born. The surgery was done in York over Christmas break. I remember walking though the mall at Christmas time with all my head bandages, I looked like a mummy and believe me people stared. I never look at myself now and see my big ears. I forget that I ever got them done, while except if they get hit. The doctor said that my ears will always be sensitive for the rest of my life. This event change my physical development for sure, but it also changed me as person. None of my friends even remember that I had surgery, but when I see someone that is different especially when they had

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