post 2 : my life story

My life began in Houston Methodist Hospital on March 23, 2007. I was the first child of my parents, Julie and Tristan Ibarra, and for the first two years of my life I lived with my parents, grandparents, and uncles in my mom's parents' house. Surrounded by a variety of people who encouraged my learning, I quickly began to explore the world. Though I don't quite remember this time of my life, I know from stories that I learned to talk very quickly and my first word was "uh-oh." My mother and grandmother both worked in elementary schools, so I learned the basics of reading by the time I was two. Around this time, my sister was born, and my parents moved our growing family to a house in Meadows Place where we still live. I continued to learn and read as much as I could as I entered elementary school, and my knowledge expanded almost as quickly as my family did; by the time I reached middle school, I had four younger siblings, and by the time I started high school, I was the oldest of six children. 

 

As I reached puberty, my aptitude for academics began to slow down. I started to ask bigger questions that my teachers couldn't answer, and I went to an academy where my excellence became average. I didn't understand the world around me, and I hated not knowing things. I didn't like what was going on with my body, and that discontent continued through my early teens until freshman year. I realized I was transgender, and that marked a turning point in my development. I grew into the boy I always was, and began to explore a new side of myself I hadn't realized was there.

Now that I am nearing adulthood, I am making preparations for the future of my development as a functioning adult. I aim to graduate in 2025 and major in biology at a college that offers the most financial aid so that I don't start off with a lot of debt. From there, I just want a job that pays decently and that I don't despise. After that, I will just go wherever life takes me. Maybe that means marriage and kids, maybe not. If I do have children, I don't want a lot of them, since I've already had enough of that in my childhood. I hope to retire comfortably, and after that, I want to continue to learn new things until I die. I don't know when I will die, but I hope it isn't painful.