TLDR- Mom was a nurse and died when I was a kid. I felt lost for some time but ended up pursuing a path to help others too.

I was a very sporty kid always doing something like karate, softball, soccer you name it. I loved being in the moment and was super outgoing and made a lot of friends through these activities. My mom died when I was 7, and I stopped going to all events because I wasn’t able to keep up with what the other kids learned. As time went on I lost a lot of social skills and isolated myself because ‘I couldn’t keep up’ and fell into depressive state for the next ten years. I spent a lot of time alone and I played video games to socialize. I started to find my passion in these games and I decided I wanted to learn more about this path and potentially follow it. In high school I left for a new STEM school that opened in my city, it seemed promising but as soon as I finished my first semester, my dad saw how this school was a bunch of hot air and I transferred to the school I would have gone to. Since going back to that school meant I couldn’t pursue a STEM track I buckled down on social academics. I took an AP psych class because I enjoyed learning about other people and events and it felt good to kinda make sense of things that weren’t always clear on the surface. I did really well on that subject so when I applied to college I decided to major in Psychology. I always wanted to help people in a clinical sense, my mom was a nurse and I idolized her and even though I never took the opportunity to switch to neuroscience or biology, I stuck with psychology and graduated. I immediately went to a master’s counseling program. It ended up being too much at once and so I took a year and now I’m back in a Clinical Program for the fall.