Tuesday, September 2, 2008
My sister and I are six years apart and she is the only full red-headed person in the family, including extended family. Most people look at us and can barely see that we are brother and sister. In regard to cognitive abilities and psychosocial areas we think and see things very differently. For example my career choice is the criminal justice field so my thinking is very logical and to the point. My career choice causes me to have to think very quickly in stressful situations whereas my sister’s career choice is the area of digital art and graphic design causing her to be very artistically minded and abstract. She has limited time to think and come up with ideas but yet she still has time to change her thoughts and ideas around. I think these differences were caused from a few things during our childhood such as the age difference between us when our parents got a divorce. Another difference is that my sister loved to read and was very outgoing at a very young age whereas I was not interested in books when I was young and I liked playing with friends as much as I liked playing by myself.
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I also know what it is like have your parents get divorced. There might be some correlation between your sister being the more independent one between you and your sister and me being the more independent one between my brother and I and that your sister and I are the younger siblings and were younger during our parents divorce.
yes you have a very good point. your career choices can make a very big deal. and the age differences. and i know how it is for the whole parnets splitting up because i went through it at a very young age and it makes a big change it your life.
I agree with you that your parents divorce might have had a significant impact on you and your sisters personalities. I wish I knew which of you are older so we could look at thoes numbers and see how they affected you two differently. We still would have trouble generalizing that conclusion but it would still be interesting.
sounds like me! I am the only one in my entire extended family with blonde hair and blue eyes. So i know what it feels like to feel like you were adopted into the family :). But I agree with everyone about how divorce makes a big impact on families!
Your way of thinking sounds a lot like mine. I am also logical and to the point. I also agree that divorce influences a person's development.
this is just like my sister and I. we are alike but think very differently
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