Essay About Ageism

When I think of the word age, I think that age is just a number. Your age should not define who you are or what people think of you. A number should not label who are you, because your age is not who you are. People should not care what their age is. Even though, a lot of people in do not like talking about their age, because people discriminate or judge whether they are old or young. When I was younger, I never cared what age I was, because I was young, care free and did not have a care in the world, but now that I am older and I am an adult, I hate when people ask me about my age. Even though I am only twenty-one years old, I still feel old. Now that I am older, I do not enjoy my birthday as much as I did in the past, if it was up to me, I would want to stay twenty-one for the rest of my life. I feel like I am a fifteen-year-old girl inside a twenty-one-year-old body. I feel as I am judged by my age, because people

Now when it comes to ageism, I have experienced many situations where I was discrimination, because of my age. It should not matter what age you are; people should not discriminate or look down on a person, just because of a number. The one of the first times I felt that I was dealing with ageism, is when I did work at a preschool. I was nineteen years old and I was an assistant in the classroom. Parents and other teachers never really came to me when there was a problem, because they judge me because of my age. Many of the parents and teachers did not think I was mature enough to handle certain situations. Also when working in a preschool at a young age the children never listened to me, when I would correct them or discipline them and they would never listen and I think in a way it was a form of ageism, because the children in the classroom knew that I was younger than the head teacher and the children just viewed me as a friend rather than a