Week 1 Popular Media Review

The show "Switched at Birth" gives, what I believe, a great example of an identity crisis like Erikson has been stating. For some that haven't seen it, it is about two teenage girls being accidentally switched on the day that they were born to two totally different families from where they were initially suppose to grow up. One grew in a middle class neighbor with most of the minorities being Hispanic living with her single mother and grandmother. Mind you, at the age about two or three, Daphne becomes deaf but didn't learn sign until she transferred to an all Deaf school at about seven. Where the other girl, Bay, grew up in an upper class family, with an older brother where they attended a private school. The girls knew something wasn't right about themselves because they always felt like outsiders when they look at their families. Also, because of the hobbies that each of the girls liked weren't very similar to their parents either. The girls eventually talked to their parents to get tested and turns out they were really switched after all.
The girls went through a very serious stage of confusion because they truly felt like they didn't know who they really were or who they could have been. They looked up to their parents for so long for guidance and to have a real sense trust until it was broken when Daphnes nonbiological mother, the one she has always referred to as mom, knew that they have been switched for years but never said a word because she claimed "Daphne was already my daughter". I believe this goes quite in hand with Erikson's notes because he empathizes the word trust with a child's early development. To demonstrate how crucial it is for a child's development not only for the sake of having a good relationship with their parents but where the child grows and develops forms a true sense of identity as well.

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