People fear many different things for many different reasons. They fear heights, public speaking, and millions of other things. The American Psychiatric Association has given a name to a problem that is common among young people; they call it Atychiphobia. Atychiphobia is the fear of failure. The fear of failure is like any other fear, it is something that we, as humans, develop throughout our lives. I fear that I will not live up to the standards my parents have set for me.
At age seven, my family and I immigrated to the United States; I quickly acquired the English language, and within one year, I was fluent in English, therefore, creating me as the family interpre