what is it that you find challenging... is it fears, is it certain people that challenge you or is it an intellectual challenge. whatever it is here is where you post it...
because of the way i grew up and the way i was taught throughout primary i have never been able to talk to people normally.. bullying was a major factor.. especially by girls that were 2 years older than me (this was grade 2 and 3). this has crossed over to the present where i have a natural distrust for girls, cannot think fast enough to talk so sometimes my speech is jumbled, so it also affects what i say and me being shy makes me even more of a target for normal peer nudging (or very low level bullying) it may sound wimpy but i have achieved great things that others haven't
I'm mentally unstable. Some days I'm good, others, not so much. Either I'm really hard to annoy or flip out at the slightest nuisance. It's quite annoying to me.
I was bullied when i was younger, because i was different, because i had dyslexia and people were passing me, and because i had to be taken out of school at the age of 8 because i forgot everything i had learnt and had to restart at a level 1 standard. So i found it difficult when friends were learning 2-3 years ahead of me and i'm covering everything i had already covered. Also i was never a skinny stick insect, i've always been big and tall, so bullying just came naturally to a lot of people, certainly as my etiquette is higher than the average person where i was brought up.
This lead to my tolerance wearing thin & in the end i became erratically violent in year 7 towards 'the bully'. Since then although i have not been bullied my tolerance has always been pushed, i find it hard to keep my cool for so long, certainly when i had other things to be concerned about, i took up recreational fighting clubs such as Kickboxing; Karate; Judo; MMA; and was considered too dangerous for a school pupil to undertake these activities because i used them to release my anger and all the energy i had from the anger, which is when i started going to the GYM, which has been the only way I've contained myself, slowly getting better i feel. The girl, and the kid both help in more ways then they can imagine, as i can channel my anger and lack of tolerance through love & affection where all my actions are for them.
So in conclusion, my challenge was and still is; Anger A challenge which i feel i have beaten; Dyslexia.
