Who am I?

We come to a stage where we ask ourselves ‘Who am I?’. You start to think about moments in your life that have made you become who you are, your family, your education, the experiences that you have been through. And there is the thing, what would you say to your younger self?. So here is a note for the Carlie you see below.

So five year old Carlie you have got a lot to learn. Your family will be a big part of how you end up to be. You already have an older brother, and soon you will have a little sister. That means you will become a middle child and trust me that comes with a lot of challenges (unfortunately you have the classic middle child syndrome). But your siblings soon become your best friends.

Your Mum and Dad then separate, and this is a big change in your life at a young age. But you have your siblings to get by with. There will be days that are tougher than others, and soon your mum becomes your idol. And unfortunately people don’t live forever, you lose people who have a massive impact to your life. Your Nan and Grandad. Its hard but you learn to cherish memories and hold on tight to the people around you.

You will enjoy doing art and crafts whilst growing up, but it wont be until you go to secondary school. The school you go to is art based. You will then choose to do fine art, graphics and media studies. You will love it and it will become your artistic outlet. They very quickly become the lessons you look forward to. In A-Levels you also choose fine art, graphics and in the first year you take travel and tourism. You quickly find out that this isn’t where you excel but complete the course, in the second year you decide to start a ceramics course. Although you didn’t like this one as much you still loved being in the art studios and did your best.

It isn’t until you go to university later on that you find out that you have dyslexia. And then it becomes clear, although you do okay at subjects that are heavily based around reading and writing, they aren’t your favourite. And whilst sitting in classrooms you couldn’t wait to get back to the art studio. Research finds that there is evidence of links between dyslexia and creativity and maybe this is why you've loved and exceled in art based subjects. (People with Dyslexia are more inventive and creative, study finds | World Economic Forum (weforum.org) This is the website where I found this information).