Literacy Autobiography Blog #1

When you're born you come out of not knowing anything but able to absorb everything. Babies have this great ability to take in whatever they see or get taught quickly and extremely effectively.  In my household, it was always my grandma who helped me become literate at a young age. Very patient while I was growing up helped me read at a very young age and got me ready for school and always kept me ahead of the other students. My inspiration to become literate growing up I would have to say is probably my father. He migrated into this country very young without knowing much English and learned it incredibly fast which ha helped him become a successful man he is today. Being that knew how hard it was to learn to read and write the English language he was also the one who supported me through that whole phase of my life. He constantly pushed me to better myself and corrected me where I was wrong. If there was an opportunity for him to help me better my reading comprehension skills he would do it. Although his and my grandma's techniques worked in the long wrong if I am going, to be honest, I was incredibly discouraged at the time. Being that it just seemed like so much work and it only seemed to get harder to the point where I would probably never master it. When I was going through grammar school and perfecting my literature skills it seemed like a huge burden on my life every time I was assigned to read a short novel and reflect on it or even read a section in class. 

That eventually all changed for the better. There was one experience in specific that I remember that really pushed me in the right direction. It was when my teachers noticed my very unmotivated reaction towards reading and put me in reading therapy where all I had to do was read. It was ultimately in my eyes legal torture towards children. So I pushed myself to become the best reader I could be in order to get out of there and never have to go again. I continued to try to be the best reader and writer I could for a very long time. It was not until about my High school years where I really began to feel literate because I was able to keep an educated conversation going having to talk all these standardized tests seeing exactly how literate I am and passing them all with flying colors that I really felt like I had made it somewhere. 

Today I really dislike reading and writing I do it solely because I have to in order to pass college. Hopefully, in my future career, there will not be any writing involved. It is very hard especially when given all these different writing styles and having to do it in all these different lengths. Ironically although I do not like it I fair pretty well with my writing and my grandma and father still like to read my writing every so often and inspire me and advise me to do better.