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Roberto Lopez-Rodriguez

Mrs. Snyder

Capstone Rough Draft 2023

03/20/2023

There's Something Wrong With You

INTRO High School has been a trip. A very uneven, confusing, bumpy and annoying trip but a

necessary trip. during this time I've been all over the place when it comes to thinking of what I

want to do. Honestly I'm still unsure on what i'm trying to do so i'll try everything i can. For me

that means art psychology and art. Other than that i'm dont think I'll be pursuing much else. But

it will all depend on how I'm feeling when I graduate. I hope to further understand peoples

minds. Like being a perfectionist,¨Many people think of perfectionism as something positive as it

is mistakenly seen as a pursuit of excellence.”(Perfectionistic Thinking and Behavior) Being a

perfectionist was seen as a problem that nobody could truly understand the reason or cause of.

Now it is now known how to manage it.

BIO

In grand rapids michigan October 30th 2004 I was born to 2 mexican immigrants. I was and still

am the first boy of the family.being the only boy is a different experience. Both my sisters tried

when they could, trying to help my parents raise me since my sisters were for a while the only

ones that knew english.. After I was born they were deciding what my name should be and the

original name was something like eduardo or manuel. In the end they opted to name me after my
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father Roberto. Later on a few years later they started to notice I was different. Unfortunately it

wasn't anything cool like superpowers or super intelligence, instead i was just diagnosed with

ADHD. Which would lead to a lot more problems later on such as struggling in school and light

depression. Around the time I got depressed was middle school to elementary. I'm not completely

sure what brought it on but it had for a while. But at around 7th grade I started making friends

again and 9th grade is when I started making lifelong friends. In 8th grade my family was

advised by a therapist to get me into sports. So I joined the soccer team at the time and it was

awful. I don't think it really helped me make friends or get better at sports. After that not much

happened for a while.in 2019 I joined the Esports team that was being founded at the time. More

specifically the Super Smash Brothers team. Then after that tragedy struck, the pandemic hit.

Everything closes and I'm left alone at home with nobody but my family. This was possibly the

most alone I've felt in my life. It was awful but around this time is when my grades were

drastically improving. And with that came a deal my family made. I got all A's and they let me

get a dog and surprisingly they held up they're end of the deal. And this was really good for me.

Mentally being alone during the pandemic was taxing and getting this gave me a reason to care.

His name is Zuko and is a shih tzu. And later not only a year later my niece Emma was born. My

sister having a baby seemed surreal. Now to me she just feels like a little sister. Another thing to

care about during the pandemic. During this whole time I went outside oddly enough to explore

the places around my home.

FUTURE GOALS

Some of the goals I feel are reasonable at the moment are making music with my friend and my

own comic. For the music we have a couple of ideas bouncing around. The genres we were
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thinking of vary from rap to hip hop to rock. And for my personal comic project I'm working on.

I haven't done much work solely for the comic since I currently have a lot of time, money and

energy restraints but in the future I'd like to put more work into it.For the future I want to explore

the world. I want to go everywhere I can. I wanna see some of the most unbelievable views and

places .

Another thing i'd like to do in the future is stay connected with the people I know. For the

majority i'll probably drift away from them but for my main friends I'm hopeful ill stay in contact

with the people i like being around. Maybe in the future I can even make more friends. The

People i meet outside of school so far have become really good friends.

In my pursuit of my career I want to get as full of an understanding of people's psyches. The

things people say and do I just want to get it. People have.

And with the time I have I want to enjoy the time I have in life. I know it sounds dramatic but it's

true .

ROUTE PATH

My plan for the future for now is to first Graduate from lee. Then head off to grcc and find what

I'm passionate about(currently behavioral psychology) and then within a few years see if college

is really for me. If I feel accomplished in it. Things can change but if I do switch out to art I will

happily pursue that too.

CONCLUSION

To summarize everything I just said, I want to go into Behavioral psychology to get an

understanding of people's mindsets. Helping them with they're difficulties in life. People
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underestimate what psychology is capable of.¨Emotional, behavioral, and developmental

problems and disorders are common in children and adolescents.” (“Behavioral and Mental

Health”) Psychology

. Couple years ago anybody that acted even the slightest bit off would just be thrown into an

asylum and basically imprisoned. Now they're not only taken care of to be understood but

rehabilitated into society too. It goes to show how much we've changed.
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Works Cited

“Behavioral and Mental Health (Pediatric).” C.S. MOTT CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL,

www.mottchildren.org/conditions-treatments/ped-child-behavioral-health.

Perfectionistic Thinking and Behavior | U-M Counseling and Psychological Services.

caps.umich.edu/content/perfectionistic-thinking-and-behavior.