Personal Narrative: My Journey Through Life

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I was born on the 2nd of January 1992, and this is the story of my journey through life. When I was born, I never cried and always kept my movements to the minimum. It took me only two months to learn how to speak my two native languages of Bengali and Hindi fluently. Yes, I was born in the city of Kolkata, India. My parents are both very interesting people, as my mother was working as a university lecturer and my father worked as an economist helping in the insurance business.

Since I was young, everyone who knew me always imprisoned me in the label of genius.

I rightfully deserved it as I can remember understanding the two languages when I was just around two months old. Even though I grasped the knowledge of linguistics, I did not bother …show more content…

My mom got really excited and started to teach me mathematics. Surprisingly, I was a natural at comprehending the logical basis behind the number system developed by humans. The comprehension I already had developed while being silent for three years was dependent upon binary bases and even though initially it took me a while I easily learned how to work with base ten systems and as I comprehended the base logic behind numbers; I had already grasped basic algebra, addition, subtraction, base conversion and much more by the age of four.

This is about when my mother was also trying to teach me color and names. Even though I have a photogenic memory; I am really bad at remembering precise words. When I hear a conversation; I only store the base logic or as you may call it ‘meaning behind the conversation’ in my memory. When my mother was trying to teach me things similar to definitions, I was really bad at it as I always remembered the interpreted meaning and not the exact definition. Around this time, another problem was raised, my parents realized that I was colorblind; even to this date I just believe myself to see the world in different shades than what is normal. Unfortunately, the society labels my visual perception as a unique colorblindness where I swap different colors like pink with purple and green with

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