Personal Narrative-Cerebral Palsy

People never know what others are going through. Most of them just don't understand anything about a person. No one would know what I have dealt with and still try to achieve in my life to this day. I have a physical abnormality known as cerebral palsy. I was born this way and there is nothing that I can do to stop it. It may make me unable to do some tasks and activities, but that never will stop me from achieving my aspirations and goals. I will and strive to make myself stronger.

This disability has physically affected me in many ways. This impairment causes all the muscles on the right side of my body to tighten. When I walk, I have a limp and drag my feet. Not only does it modify my leg stability, it also affects my toes, arm, and hand.
It is hard for me to throw or kick a ball. I have trouble curling my toes. In elementary school, I was taken out of the mile because of Cerebral Palsy. They even knew that I was not capable of walking right, let alone running. Cerebral palsy has been a setback in my life because I am not free to be the active and capable person I desire to be.

All throughout elementary school, I was placed in remediation classes. Just because Cerebral Palsy affects the brain. They just would assume something is wrong with my way of thinking just before we even did any work. I think it did help be to some degree, however, I don't think it was necessary for all those years.

Through the years, I have been bullied for my condition.
Words such as disability, impairment, and handicap when misunderstood and misused can be hurtful, and offensive, especially to me. Every day is a struggle that I wish could just disappear. But, life is not a Hollywood movie, it's reality. I can't just magically start walking normally. In fact, I can never walk normally. It's not like the movie Forest Gump. Once he started running his braces broke and he was running normally. Cerebral Palsy does not go away by some miracle. It can never be cured, it can only be helped.

Not only does cerebral palsy has strained my ability to physically do things, but it doesn’t just have physical effects on my daily life. This physical abnormality has made me feel as if I am just not as good as the average person. When I see teenagers walking the halls and being who they truly are, I wish I could do the same. I want to be able to walk, not just in the halls, anywhere normally, just as well as anyone else can. Cerebral palsy is only going to be a wish that I would one day hope to see come true. A solution to all of this hardship in my life.
In the earlier years of my life, I was pulled out of classes for occupational therapy. I felt like that was controlling my life. I just wanted to live a normal life, be an ordinary person. All I wanted was one day, just one to be free and live a life everyone around me did. Sometimes I wanted to just run away. Run away from all of the physical weaknesses and emotions I
had.

Some days I just wanted to Give Up. However, Giving Up is the failure. Failure would get me nowhere in life. Even though it was a battle, physical therapy got me to this point in my life. I know from that downfall in my life to this goal I have tried to reach for all this time, I am more capable of things today than I would ever dream of doing those years ago.