Compare yourself with either a sibling or parent (if a sibling is not available). How are you physically similar and different? Describe the similarities and differences in cognitive abilities and in psychosocial areas. What caused these differences?
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Hey, I was having trouble with making my own blog so I'm writing mine as a third comment. I will compare myself with my brother who is six years older than me. We both have brown hair and are about the same height, but he is a solid 100 lb.s heavier than me. The reason being is that while growing up he earned a third degree black belt and competed in strong man competitions (that 100 lb.s is all muscle). While I am 140 lb.s and built more like a runner. My brother is very intellectually gifted, however he only made it through a year of college before quitting. I would like to think that I am as smart as my brother, but I know I have more patience. Also, although I am somewhat introverted, my brother is the definition of a loner. I think some of the reasons for these differences goes back to his time in martial arts. He was always very good at it and he would get frustrated if he felt he was not improving fast enough. This need for getting things done fast may explain why he got so frustrated in college because it simply took too long to achieve the final goal. Also, while growing up I typically had more friends than he did. His friends were the two or three other students learning martial arts and his teacher. While I played sports in jr. high and high school where I had to learn to play as a team. These different environments and psychosocial factors in combination with different genes (although we share the same parents) I believe had a major role in creating both of our personalities.
I am a twin. We were identical at birth, to such an extreme that my mother had a difficult time telling who was who. During birth my twin brother kicked while coming out so the doctor had to do an emergency c-section to get me out, for this reason I was born 15 minutes after my twin brother. The umbilical cord was wrapped around my neck and I had sufficated. The nurse lay me on a side table and my mother begin to struggle to get to me the doctor had to slap her to get her to calmdown. She looked over at me and she says that my head turned to her, my eyes popped open I spit stuff out of my mouth and just started screaming. The dr's imeadiatly put mr in an incubation tent, they could not figure out why I had come back my original birth certificate reads boy B Dreasler deceased(scratched out), Live birth. I tell you all of this because at the age of two my twin brother was diagnosed with epilepsy. Because of the medications and other complications we began to change in our appearances. I am 2 inches taller than Charlie and weigh about 100lbs. more than he does. when wewere five years old I cut off Charlies nose with a teeter totterand his face has formed more round due to to the reattachment. Other than that we both have the same colored hair,and eyes. Charlie lives in Liberty Mo. and I live here in Warrensburg we get together about once every two months and each time if I have shaved or grown out my beard or a goaty or anything like that he has done the same thing without any correspondence about it . If I buy something that I think is really cool Charlie often times has just bought the same thig or already has one like it. On the other hand Charlie and I have always been attracted to very different people. The girls he choses I would never chose and he would never chose the ones I chose in the past the same goes for our male friends as well. As far as cognitive agilities, due to Charlie's epilepsy and the medicines he has been on, He has a lower IQ. He has been in special education classes all his life and has no college aspirations.
Compare yourself with either a sibling or parent (if a sibling is not available). How are you physically similar and different? Describe the similarities and differences in cognitive abilities and in psychosocial areas. What caused these differences?
My brother and I are very different, in fact complete opposites. He is tall, dark, and athlectically built. I am shorter, fair, and more round. Educationally, I was always the overachiever and he was the care free student. He did well in school but never put forth much effort. I on the other hand was very motivated to do my best at all times. When it comes to personality we are also very different. My brother is outgoing and can make people laugh without even knowing them. I'm more shy and it takes a while for me to really open up to people. What we have in common is that we both have a strong faith in God. Looking at the differences it is easy to think that we are different due to some family upheaval, but in reality, our family has been solid all our lives. God just made us different.
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