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When you consider your disability a "struggle"

Back in 2011 I have decided to start a website. I know I created a website to share my story with the world in order for me not to feel alone in this situation. I was just  simply overcoming the dark side to my life as a teenager, at that time I considered my disability a "struggle"  because through those moments I had in the past I felt like my disability was a struggle that I couldn't win. Now I learn after coming out of a shell and box that I kept myself in for a while until graduating high school with no plan to my future I had no choice but to push myself and speak up before I was put in a place where my knowledge, talents, abilities and passions would be used and put to work and not only as a stereotype that my disability is not a struggle as I begin to grow into a world of opportunities after deciding to take my advocacy beyond behind scenes. Using the word struggle to me is a sign of pity and to be sorry for but to me Cerebral Palsy is not a struggle its a challe