Personal Statement.. ..the beginning anyway
...irst started secondary school. My academy was better known as “the roughest school in Ayr” and as a politely spoken, intelligent young lady I was taunted and socially excluded from every day activities. My brother and I would meet at the gates where we would walk home together ignoring the jeers from across the street. We’d heat up our already prepared dinners and sit in our separate rooms waiting for mum to arrive home late from her shift behind the bar. She was a hard-worker and struggled to bring us up, nonetheless she was loving and caring, and she never hurt us deliberately. My upbringing resulted in me suffering from an eating disorder and consequently depression. It was never the most difficult childhood to endure of course but it certainly makes one take a step back and look at life from a different perspective. As an individual now, confident and full of determination, I want to turn the negative into the positive and use my life experiences to help others. Why? I suppose in the end it pretty well comes down to the old cl...