<p>This is a VERY rough draft. If anyone could give me advice on how to improve it I would appreciate it!</p>
<p>For the majority of my life, I was very self-centered. I come from a small community where I am a well-known individual. Growing up, I always wanted to follow in the footsteps of my father and become a lawyer. That dream completely changed when I was 14 and my autistic brother was born.
When my baby brother was born, my life changed dramatically. I was no longer the center of attention in my family. At first, I had a hard time adapting to this change. I was no longer an only child. In addition to adapting to having a sibling, I had to adapt to having an autistic sibling. For the first three years of his life, we had therapists coming in and out of our house multiple times a week to help him with his delayed speech and motor skills. Instead of focusing on myself like I previously had, I began focusing on helping my baby brother. I often do activities with him such as coloring or taking him to the community park. Since he was born, I have always put him before myself.
The more time I spend helping my brother, the more I see what I aspire to be in the future, a psychiatrist. I would love to spend the rest of my life helping individuals with mental disabilities or mental illnesses. Once I realized this dream, I challenged myself by taking an honors anatomy and physiology course. I find it interesting learning about how the brain works and how a simple imbalance of chemicals can strongly affect how a person functions. This past semester, I took a psychology course at school in order to learn about all of the mental disabilities. As I learn more, I feel stronger and stronger about my dream of being a psychiatrist. The day I am qualified to help kids and even adults like my brother will be my dream come true.</p>