Personal Narrative: My Experience At T. E Culbertson Elementary School

At the age of 8 I was in the kitchen and was jumping off of things and my mother’s banister decoration fell directly on my head and knocked me to the floor everything around me went blank and I couldn't move. Hearing the loud bang my mom jumped up to see what was going on and picked me off the floor and held me close against her until I could get through with all of my crying and tell her what happened. She put me in the car and rushed me to the emergency room and it turned out I had a concussion when we returned home it was advised that I didn't go to sleep so me and my mom had a contest to see who could stay up longer or course I did. A little past midnight she allowed me to finally go to sleep and so I did. A couple days later I noticed my vision started to get a little hazy which resulted in me having to get glasses.

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During that year it was common for someone to be called a nerd if they had glasses because that was the “insult” of the year for someone in elementary school. But it only took one person to point out the difference, a boy who was a year older than me pointed out to the entire class that I had glasses and i became known as Shanti 4 by 4. There were a couple of shows out that gave the impression that if someone wore glasses they were less important popularity wise. But education wise they were the person to instanly shove your homework to and force them to do it. Glasses in mass media meant the basics smart, unimportant and more importantly a target for bullying. According to sociology the dysfunction of mass media can increase social conformity,shapes views through editorializing as they