Do you ever get that creeping feeling, perhaps fear, that no matter what you do, some of those around you – although in the nicest of ways and with the best of intentions – define you, first and foremost, as a person with cerebral palsy?
It’s not that I can’t accept the fact that I have it. I have cerebral palsy. Moving is hard. There are some things I will never be able to do without help and some things I’ll never be able to do at all. I get that. I’m mostly okay with it. My life is pretty much in sync with these limitations.
Freya
Comments
‘You’re so normal for a disabled person. You’re still pretty.’
I’m sure I’m not the only person who encounters such backhanded comments. How I deal with them is dependent upon the situation.
Firstly, let me say, I realise that in saying such things most people don’t intend to insult. They actually intend to compliment. It’s just that well, they are so eager to say what their thinking, that they don’t play it over in their minds first. We are all guilty of that from time to time.
Read more: Comments
No Comments »