When I was graduating high school no help me plan my future. I did all the work on my own..My OT therapist mention in a meeting he had with my mom that an Day hab program would be the perfect for me. Not because I have a disability does not mean I have to be placed where ever society fail us. How can you simple label someone because they use a wheelchair. All disabilities have different abilities that's what they fail to realize I am have a mild case of CP was effects the left side of my brain but does not effect my learning. Some people with disabilities goes for what is said and don't know how important it is to have a voice to be able to grow into the future,
Life in quarantine as person with a disability is nothing new it's often our reality in some cases. Before this current situation I feel like I once lived in aspect of quarantine in high school for 4 years. It never really hit me to make such connection to the new reality until today. In 2009 the beginning of my high school journey On the first day of school when the school bus came to pick me up the diver inform my mom that the school i was in route to go to was not wheelchair accessible.. I never really talk out this experiences in my speeches but a few weeks ago I was ask to share my journey with college students majoring in education ask me if I had the opportunity of going to same schools as my peers and neighbors if wanted too and that was when the light went of in my head to share this experience. very few of my neighborhood schools are wheelchair accessible so again my parents and I didn't have many choices on placement of school. Once I got the okay to...
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