Writing is not only just a job, more of a way to express a person as it is difficult for those to speak out without being judged, hurt for what they say. Those who write understand it’s another form of art, as each essay, each book, each line that is written down in ink, each one has a hidden meaning to it.

Writing is one of the very few hobbies I enjoy doing, I feel as my writing is one of my drawings. Telling the stories, messages, or whatever else to get the reader question or interested. Like my drawings, writing helps me express myself as I have a hard time speaking, from my stutters, mispronunciation, to just the way I speak. For many years now from around the age of 5 to now, it is hard for me to speak without being judged, and it shuts me down, I just end up not talking. I ended up turning to write, cause once I put that ink on the paper, the words tell a story. I ended up writing because I got tired of speaking, it got so bad many thought I was “slow” because I couldn’t speak like them. As said before this has been going on since around the age of 5, and no matter what I told them I got named called. I always felt that speaking wasn’t my go-to and that I shouldn’t keep on going. At this point I went on to art, drawing, expressing myself in lines and shapes other than words and ink. It is an art that got me into writing even more because I had to speak about my artwork and say why I used these colors or why I added little contrast and so on. Help express me as it is something I can’t do face to face.

Although writing has helped me for years on speaking just for English it has also helped me for other languages as well. I am Hispanic, and my native language is Spanish. Sadly, I never had the chance to learn it at a young due to my father’s stupidity, so because of that, I have trouble speaking, pronouncing words in Spanish. For that I get put down as well I should know how to speak Spanish, how I am a disgrace to the Hispanic community, not knowing my background, and why I struggle to speak Spanish. But I don’t let that stop me, I am eager to learn Spanish as if it’s a different language like Japanese or French. I wouldn’t have felt like this if it wasn’t for my grandmother. She got me to the point where I want to get better for her to speak to her to have a full-on conversation, and to understand her. There are times when I am in Spanish class and I can’t roll my R’s and I get looks, it bothers me, but I pay no mind and I go on because I am not there to impress anyone, I am there to learn and get better at a language that was basically stolen from me at such a young age. Although my English doesn’t really affect Spanish, my stuttering and pronouncing still kick in and I get nervous to even speak Spanish because I don’t want to mess up a word or say something else because I can’t speak right, so sometimes I write it out. Write Spanish sentences to get a better understanding of pronouncing the words.

Although countless people will say speaking and writing aren’t the same, to me and many others it is. Some of us are mute and can’t speak, and writing is the closest thing they get to speaking, but still, get called weird or not normal. My English is not perfect, no one is, and no one should just assume things. Our President has a stuttering problem, but you think he let that stop him from his normal daily life. I hated talking growing up because of this problem, but I grew to accept it as it shows who I am as a person, and I don’t want to change something that makes me known. If my speech problem is something people remember me for then so be it, cause then they all know how I didn’t let that stop me from my future.

Overall, I love writing, it’s another form of speaking for me as I have trouble speaking, and I want to show people that writing is not only a form of communication but also another form of art, through ink and words. Writing helps many overcome a lot of things whether it’s speaking without feeling judged because of your “broken” English or a stutter or speech problem you have, in the end, all these “problems” we have, define who we are as people and something I’m happy to have now.