Interpersonal Event Analysis

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My third interpersonal event is my relationship with my brother. My brother, Johnathan Blake Samuelson is a 24 year old stuck in a 16 year olds mind set. He has high functioning autism. I was never close with my brother growing up because I always felt older but I never understood what autism was. After my seventh grade teacher accidentally told me Johnathan is my half brother after a gene science experiment, I knew that he was very different than me. After that I was convinced my parents lied to me about everything because I was 12 years old finding out that my brother has a different dad that he had never met and he is special needs. The song that I chose to best represent my relationship with my brother is Stand By Me by Ben E.King. This …show more content…
He can live in his room with video games and be perfectly fine for the rest if his life with no interaction. Interaction is essential for humans life. Realizing all of these differences between my brother and I, I knew why my family treated us differently. My first concept relevant to this interpersonal relationship is my concept of self-awareness. I finally concluded that just because my brother wasn’t into sports and hunting that didn’t mean I couldn’t. There was always a social comparison between my brother and I, granted we both got bullied for different things. After school all the boys in my brothers class would pick on him because he stutters when he talks and one day I had had enough of it. Even though I was only in fourth grade I told those eighth grade boys to knock it off or my dad was going to beat them up. With being compared to my brother growing up I personally had self-fulfilling prophecies. I remember saying how much I never wanted to be anything like my brother, this pushed me to want more for myself than just being average. My brother would constantly wreck opportunities and I did not want that for myself. Little did I know that he is autistic and I am not. I can have a future for myself. Having self-fulfilling prophecies made me feel special whenever Johnathan was getting more attention than