31 for 21 Day 22 : "The first of many graduations"

      My  mom is a wonderful women.  She is strong   smart and  by far my best advocate.    I love her so much.  She  also  believes in me.


 We have an old  video  of my  preschool graduation.  In the video  my mom is saying that this  is the first of many graduations and she included medical school .    I should  mention that  this was  a graduation from a  special needs preschool.    My mom is amazing.  The belief and hope that her child  with  disabilities could achieve  greatness  is  ineradicable.   That is one of the reasons  that I have  come so far.   It is  because  she believed  in me. 

  Leave a comment  if you would like to hear from  my  mom in a future  blog post.

 The  first of many  Oh how  right my mother  was

31 for 21 Day 21 Brave in the attempt to obtain knowledge

 First day of school  Fall 2015

   

        On my first day at my new univestiy,  which  happen two days   before  I wrote this post.   I  alternated  between   excitement and  fear.

 The excitement   came from  the classes I would be taking,  the  fear   came  from  my experinces at my  old  university.   But after   I   had one class and   went to go find lunch   and heard  music playing I  thought  that.  I  got   this   and I knew that I  can be brave  in the attempt to   obtain  knowledge.  

  The  mental  scars that I have  from my educational experince are many.   I  was  label  the bad kid  in  K to 12 . I was  told  that I could not  graduate  from college (  I graduate in 2016)  I was   bullied  and  told  to  ignore  it , yet I  have overcame.      It has not been easy but    I  am  plaining to celebrate big  when I  graduate  from college because  I was  brave and  overcame soo much.

    Imagine how much more confident  I would have been if  I   did not have those  scars.  Do you have school scars  from your school  years of your child's  let me know below

   I  do not mean to brag  or  anything but I  am  pretty  amazing.   

31 for 21 Day 20 : On being realistic...

              When   a  baby is born. The sky  is the limit. Parents dream  of their kid being a doctor lawyer or actor.  Sometimes those dreams die when  their is  a developmental disability  that is  diagnosed.    Haply  as society   is becoming more inclusive  these dreams do not have to die. There are  college  programs for people  with disabilities  and  there are more options for employment   as well.
                          The hard  part about this is that  these opportunities are closed to people with developmental disabilities.   Not because   they are not  capable  or unlucky, but because  the adults in charge  destroy   their dreams.    They rip them up into tiny shreds  and  lock them  away.   Now  these people are not  overly mean  they  think they are  being realistic and  kind. They  feel that they are doing the best thing for them and  their  parents. Sometimes parents  agree with  these limits.

    This happened to me  on a few occasions.  The first being  in  high school  where they told me I'd  work in the back room and live in a group home. The seconded time being   my experience  at a private college.    I know  how I got through those hard  times by  having people  believe  in me.    From parents to  teachers   at my  jr college to my friends .  I decided to listen to them instead and now  I am  almost done.
   It is up to the adults  in  a young persons life to encourage them to dream big.  Young children can  not  dream , but  the adults  can  dream by having high expectations.   A   long time ago doctors  tried  telling parents to be realistic and put there children in institutions.     That did not  work out  so well.   Don't  be  realistic  be  bold and  daring.   Set high goals Will kids  reach those said  goals?  Maybe not, but  not all able bodied people  do either.   Let  people with disabilities  show  you that they can not  do something instead of  never  letting them try .
 
  For anyone reading this   with a disability

 Blast those low expectations out of the water.



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31 for 21 Day 19 : Virtural Field Trip

  Hi  guys  so  today I  want to introduce you to another great blog written by  an adult with Cerebral Palsy.  She  is a good writer who also  blogs about disability   issues.  This  is a post in which she writes about  the photo  that  should not have gone viral. The  link can be found   here 


Read it and comment on this page.  Do you agree or disagree.

31 for 21 Day 18 Lorreta Clairborn

 I  really hope I can meet her one day.  She is amazing

31 for 21 day 17 :Great Ted talk

  This  is a great Ted talk done by a women with CP.   I have   chatted with her via Facebook She is nice women who speaks her mind about things that she is passionate about.   Remind you of anyone?

31 for 21 Day 16 : Memories from first grade

     In First grade I remember.

    Learning about the contents and  dinosaurs.


  Falling and hitting my head  three times in the same sport.

           I fell and hit my  head  playing with my siblings  in the play room.  I  remember  going to  the downstairs  bathroom  being all bloody. It was not a present site.

        I fell at school.

      I also fell  when book girl pushed a toy  shopping cart with me riding on top.  That was not a good  idea.

        Today  I have a scar on my forehead from where that happen.



   My class got chicken pox. I got the shot but the next day  I went into school  and my teacher  told me to go to the office because I actually had  the Chicken Pox.



      I  remember  getting  tested for NLD. I did not understand that I  had it until ninth  grade.


             I was  very close to my first grade teacher.  My  mother always  reminds me of this  by saying that first grade was the year I sat on my  teacher's lap.      I do have memories of  not sitting on her lap but   I think it happened more times then not.     I also  remember
  being sat down and  told I had CP, so  maybe that was part of it I am not sure.    I had behavior problems and was labeled  the bad kid.     This was the last year   that I  attended  that school.    From then on I attended  public school.  Academically that was the right choice  socially well you  will have to  see   in my  next post.





    Past posts  about first grade

          NLD