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Fellow mixed people, if you've ever been through an identity crisis, is this what happens before, during, & after the identity crisis?

I'll try to summarize this short.You & your siblings identified yourself with what you were raised the most. When people asked you what you are, you’d either answer by telling the person what you identified & they’d think it was cool & they’d ask you Q’s. Deep inside though, you felt as if you were more than that. If you’d tell the truth, you’d feel embarrassed answering b/c you wanted people to view you a certain way. Growing up, you started realizing that your parents’ friends & acquaintances weren’t treating you the way you were being raised as. When you enter college or are out on your own, the atmosphere isn’t the same & you start thinking more about what you are. Then, someone tells you something you don’t like & that’s when the identity crisis begins, & you become more aware that you're mixed. You start asking yourself if you’re enough of this & that to do this & that, & why I wasn’t born this way. You ask your parents Q’s about how they met. You get interested in your family tree & meeting & talking with more family members you never talked with before. You talk with people you trust about your crisis. You look for answers to solve your crisis on Yahoo Answers, social media, & YouTube. Time goes on & once you get the answers you want, you start embracing everything that you are, but your siblings keep identifying with one thing & denying their other part of their heritage. This is in short what I went through, being 1/2 Dominican, 1/4 Salvadoran, & 1/4 Anglo-American.

Update:

I used to identify as Dominican. Then the identity crisis hit. I asked all sort of Q’s here for help. Now that I'm more aware that I’m mixed, I’m beginning to identify myself with everything, and as Hispanic and Anglo. Now, I’m beginning to rep more about everything that I am. So far, you’ve been a great and important tool for help to me, Yahoo Answers, & I want to thank you.

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  • 7 years ago
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    I kind of did, but I was using race as a scapegoat for other issues

  • God d@mn, you wrote a novel over this? Identity crisis is so retarded, majority of mixed people don't go through that crap.

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