The Similarities Between My Label And Stereotypes

People have been judging each other for hundreds of year. One thing that people do when they

judge people is label them by things such as their appearance, how they talk, and even by what

they like to do personally. But nobody knows you better than yourself, no matter how close or

how distant your relationship is with them is. Here are some stereotypes that I have been given

from the perspective of both the people around me and from my own perspective of how I label

and stereotype myself.

Let’s start with how other people stereotype me so that in the end of this essay we can

compare and contrast stereotypes against reality when it comes to labeling and judging others.

When I am in public, I am very different than how I am in my own home. I don’t
even act like

myself around my own friends. In fact, if you are someone who would say is somewhat close to

me when it comes to knowing who I am and what I am like, you have about a 50­50 shot at

being right.
Some of the examples that I will use may sound offensive to myself but to my eyes I

see people being honest with me, which is good, somewhat. Some things that people would say

about me is that I seem to look like that “poor wanna be kid” when it comes to who I am around

other people. My next example is more of a general stereotype from the people I hang out with

but don’t act like myself around. Those people would say that I am “not good at sports but hang

out with the people that are”. My last example of what people would stereotype me as comes

between my closest friends to my most hated enemies. What those people would call me

generally is “a mix between crazy, weird, calm, humorous, annoying, friendly, and strange. That

is how other people would stereotype me, now let’s talk about how I stereotype myself.

When I stereotype myself, other people’s judgement tend to have an affect on how I see

myself. some things that I label myself as is the person who hangs out with both the nerdy and

the athletic type of people. I’m also the kind of person who likes attention, but unlike how
some

of the goth people at our school get attention, I try to get attention by making people laugh.

What I learned about myself in this activity is that I’m not me without other people being

around me. I guess you can say I’m a real people person. There were few things that I learned

about others, but one thing that I did learn is that people who stereotype others without knowing

them can come up with some completely wrong guesses about others.