Blanca Limon Case Study

Blanca Limon is a 66 year old woman, who has been a family friend for about 30 years. My parents met her through the church we currently attend. She was born on January 23, 1950 in Piedras Negras Coahuila, but currently resides in Comanche, Texas with her husband, her divorced son, and 5 grandchildren. She is a mother of two men and two women. Mrs. Limon has always been a stay at home mother, and now stays at home to raise her grandchildren. I constructed a set of questions that incorporated Erikson's eight psychosocial stages of development. We had the interview scheduled through the FaceTime, and she asked to have the interview after 10:00 P.M., because that was when her oldest granddaughter went to her room. Before the interview and
When I asked why, she stated “because they loved me, fed me, and provided me with a home”. She also said she was told that she was very attached to her mother, and cried when she was separated. In the stage of infancy, the infant's completely depend on others to meet their needs, and trust grows as their needs are met. Mrs. Limon was able to surpass trust vs. mistrust crisis, because she had her parents she could trust and provided her with unconditional love. A childhood memory she recalled was being around two or three years old and people laughing at her because she was “changing colors”. She shared that she was named Blanca because was born with light complected skin and and Blanca means “white” in spanish, but she slowly turned darker. She stated she would cry because people would call her “negra”, at that time she was too young to comprehend that they were joking with her but that made her feel ashamed of skin color and her name. In the second stage she faced shame and lack of self esteem. She shared she later understood that their was nothing wrong with her name or skin color, but that it took her several years before she understood that and overcame that
In response to her accomplishments during her schooldays she said she was shy but did have goals, and worked hard in school to obtain good grades. Since she had two older siblings, they would walk her to school and help her with her weakest subject-math. The support she received from her mother, sister and brother helped her learn how to “sumar y restar”, which means to add and subtract. Mrs. Limon only attended school up to the 6th grade level. When I asked her how her youth compared to the youth now, she said it was not comparable. That the youth was more respectful and had “healthier” lifestyles. She also shared that she had many boyfriends and started having boyfriends at the age of 15, but the relationship she had with them was very innocent. We laughed when she confessed that out of all her boyfriends her husband was her favorite, and they married when she was 18 years old. During Erikson's fifth stage of development, adolescents are trying to find their true identity. I believe she was trying to find her true self through all her boyfriends, and she overcame that crisis when she met her husband. Mrs. Limon united in marriage at the age of 18 and had her first child at 19 years old, and three more every two years. Her most enjoyable stage of her life have been having her children and marrying her husband. She shared the the bond that she has with her husband is indescribable, and loves