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My Stereotypes Of Myself In High School

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I have never been shoved into a locker before and no bully has ever stolen my lunch money, but I am a nerd. I have never scored the winning goal or won the championship game, but I am an athlete. 
 I am not the greatest painter and I do not spend much time in the dark room at my school, but I am an artist all the same. Living in a society that is so obsessed with labeling people, it is very tempting to want to follow suit, trying to fit into any one of these often very specific and restricting categories. Before beginning my high school career, I remember thinking to myself, Who am I going to be in high school? I love dance, so am I going to be the artsy, creative person? But I also love math, so am I going to be one of the STEM kids? I honestly believed that I needed to make this decision. All I knew at that time was that there were a couple of different types of students, and people aligned themselves with these stereotypes and they kept them at least until they graduated. This seemed like a monumental decision at the time, for it felt like once I branded myself, that would become my identity, whether I liked it or not. …show more content…

Trying to force myself to choose any of the typical archetypes felt as arbitrary as spinning the giant wheel on some sort of strange, “Let’s choose your identity” game show. I tried out the “nerd” for a little bit, and then I switched to the “artist,” I even tried the “rebel” (this lasted all of two days, and the only thing that made me a rebel was that I wore an oversized flannel shirt). When I tried to embody any of these personas, I felt like I was forced to ignore important aspects of my personality and I felt restricted to only certain

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