Since childhood I was never good at verbal linguistics skills. Growing up, my father was a caring parent but often times, emotionally distant from me so by default, I was never taught how to connect to people through verbal communications but how to gain his attention through my actions. My mother, on the other hand, was warmhearted and loved by many. She would draw attention to anyone and from everyone she encountered and made them important and cared for. Their conflicting personalities have had an impact on my personal development.
As the only child, I lacked social linguistic fostering from my parents. They were at odds with each since my birth mostly due to never having emotional attachment towards one another, as a result of the old fashion Chinese culture of arranged marriage. Indirectly, they’ve hardly spoke to each other and mostly important, signs of affection was non-existence. With that I grew up with the perception that being distant and detached was the norm towards friends and later in life, towards relationships. Moreover, neither of my parents were college graduates, and although academic achievement was important in the household, my parents involvement was minimal. Throughout my youth, my after school activities were street activities with the neighborhood kids. Despite attention the best private school in Sao Paulo, the importance of education in Brazil was not at its highest in comparison to the United States. Parents were not encouraged to spend a certain amount of time with their kids reading literature and/or working together with homework. As a result, building my Linguistic Intelligence was limited to what was taught in school and the few hours spent on my homework after school. However, through my struggles in my teenage and, even as an adolescent, I've discovered later on in life, that my intelligence was not limited to what I've