Connecting the Personal to the Universal in my Auto-Ethnography

My auto ethnography focuses on what I think is the most universal topic of all time; the idea of identity.I have always wondering what facts led to me becoming the way that I am now and I think many others feel the same. Of course, no two experiences are exactly alike, and there are certain factors that effect some that other people have not experienced. With the idea of the subjective and multiple perspective I have set out to collect interviews from a diverse set of sources. One thing I have noticed is that my sources are all people who have found a culture that south their values that perhaps their predetermined family environment could not provide or agree with. My interviews are with the black sheep; those who have seen adversity in their experience which has shaped who they have become. These interviews, coupled with my own insight and stories will hopefully connect to multiple people who have seen something similar or felt a similar way. My main questions focuses on how we have been influenced by what we have grown up believing is true, and what grounds this has in how we turn out. I have always had mixed views on the imposition of values of families onto a child who does not see eye to eye with them and in this paper I will try and approach that with as much objectivity as I can muster. Much of this paper will also be a person reflection on how I see things and how those who I am interviewing see things. It will be unfiltered, but professional.