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Personal Narrative: My Experience With Disabilities
During more than half of my seventh grade year I caught a virus.Which made me weak and sent me to the hospital for a month I did not go back to school right away. During that time I fell behind in school and because my grades dropped significantly. This was not going to make me end the year off with bad grades because I studied hard to end the year off with good grades. After I came out of the hospital. This motivated me to work twice as hard and to catch up with my classmates. The second time I went to the hospital, I was there for about nine days and on the ninth day I got a wheelchair. The wheelchair was for me to help me get around because when I stood up I would start to wobble. The wheelchair was to help me get around like in school and …show more content…
This made me feel out of place because I love sports , and not being able to do PE made me feel sad and out of place. This was very different because I was usually very active and I do not like to be sitting down doing nothing. Being back in school was very different. When I got to my classes it was very different I did not know where I was going to sit because the desks had a chair attached to them. At the beginning, it was a little bit difficult, but then I got the hang of it. I would get into class and the teacher and I had arranged where I would sit in class, I was going to sit where a regular desk was . A regular desk was a desk that had a chair that was constructed with it. I would always use a folder as my desk this helped me write anything the teacher assigned. I would only go to school for a couple of classes because that was what my doctor had approved. My goal was to go to school just like my sisters and everyone else, the whole day of school. I have been slowly able to achieve my goal of going to school all

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