Julie

Backstory

This is me, Julie Eileen Snape. My father is Severus Snape and my mother is yet to be discovered. My father doesn't like to talk about her since he is still very much in love with her and her death still really affects him. Due to the few times, he has spoken about her, I have discovered that she was very pretty and that I look a lot like her. I also have discovered that she had a passion for both music and art, just like me but I get my black hair and brown eyes from my father. I have a picture of her but I still don’t really know what she looks like because it is a picture of her and my father on their first date as teenagers. Although she was still pretty, I don't see how I look as much like her as others say I do. I am a Slytherin just like my father meaning I get my attitude from him considering my mother was a Hufflepuff. I am in my first year of Hogwarts and so far it is going great, I am deciding to focus on my studies this year though, making friends isn’t really my thing. I have always been known as the ‘quiet kid’, ‘the silent kid’, or ‘the kid who never speaks’ and I have also been bullied for this over the years. This has definitely taken a big hit on my confidence, and I am hoping in Hogwarts I will find my true self again. I liked it when I was confident, I would speak my mind but also be aware of what other people were saying, not to mention my attitude. I would get into fights with people simply because I didn't know when to shut up but then we would be running down the halls laughing 10 minutes later.

The reason I am so silent now is that a couple of years ago I was diagnosed with both Autism and Social Anxiety which has developed into Selective Mutism. This is very hard to deal with and even though I have been aware of it for years now, I am still getting over the fact that I have it, and every day is a battle for me. I tend to complain about my Anxiety because I don’t like being silent and I want to be my true self again, but if I was given the opportunity to get rid of it, I don't think I would. My father has been really helpful and extremely supportive towards me and I will be forever thankful no matter how many fights we get into because if I didn't have him by my side I definitely wouldn’t be here today.