Examples Of Autobiography Of A Tomboy

I am a tomboy. Since the day I first became conscious ofmy appearance, I had stopped wearing dresses. Even as I grew up, I added the least feminine elements to my appearance. When facing the boys in my class, my parents’ words of encouragement to surpass the boys academically grew in my subconscious, and I have become competitive, trying to solve every math problem the boys cannot answer. After living with my granny, who believes that boys are superior to girls, for six years in the Chinese countryside, insecurity forced me to be vigilant about my surroundings and cautious about my words and my future. My parents were undereducated, and my father’s educating method is simple—do everything as hard as I can. I rarely received any compliments from my father. Fear of my father’s strict style of discipline- hitting and constant scolding- when I was young terrified me and made me become very self-disciplined about my grades and tests. Even after I started living at boarding school, which I had done since the third grade, I had never gotten an A-. But I still struggled with myself, my inferiority about being a girl and my fears of being ordinary or unintelligent. Often in elementary
Though suffering from my inferiority, I have discovered the strength to enter the world of engineering. Tools and machines will never disappoint—when one puts a quarter-inch wrench on a quarter—inch bolt, it works. I don’t have to be the smartest or the prettiest to gain other’s recognition, and I don’t need to please anyone in the engineering world. As long as I understand the mechanics, I can accomplish anything if I try hard enough - the efforts I put it will always become the outcome I wished