Throughout all of my life I have been the “black sheep” of my family. Growing up in a rodeo oriented family, it was not easy when I decided that showing livestock was the route I wanted to take instead of rodeo. You see diversity in my family comes in a different form. My …show more content…
If a person were to meet me now, I truly believe they would be unaware of how much I struggled in school with bullying. Growing up I was pushed around for numerous reasons. I was not like other people in my school. For example, the majority of guys in my class were of poor morals and made bad decisions that I did not want to be a part of. So from the time I was in middle school until this past year I was pushed around for my best friends being girls. There were many things spread around the hallways of Dibble High School about my life and who people thought I was. This drove me to hating school. I hated being in that school due to being uncomfortable in my own skin. I felt unwanted even with my best friends around and lived in constant fear of being ridiculed by others. Being bullied was not something that I flashed for the world to see, but not something that I was completely ashamed of