Identity Scripts

I found identity scripts very interesting in this week’s reading. They are basically the rules and guidelines that define who we are and how we act as a person and the roles we maintain. The book states that most of these roles are defined by the age of five, but can be reviewed and changed as an adult. Often, children are given certain expectations by their parents, which develop into the child’s identity script. This means that to a certain extent, parents really form identity scripts. Identity scripts determine how we view everything and ourselves. Having the belief that you are expected to go to college would be an identity script. Not everyone has that expectation and is something that is normally determined by your parents. For example, my parents have always expected me to college and normally just explained that was how things worked. I have known I was going to go to college since I was little and when I was little I would get confused if someone hadn’t gone to college. That is an identity script for me.