Tag: #cerebralpalsy
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I Don’t Know How To Be Independent
Hi guysss! Recently, I attended a friend’s party. My incapabilities were definitely magnified. Whilst playing Hot Potato. We were using this egg-shaped device that shocked you. Following every round it had to be powered on. Of course, due to my absolutely brilliant luck, for a myriad number of rounds, a person adjacent to me was…
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Advocating For Yourself: Be Your Own Star
Hi guysss! What’s popping? In the preceding blog, I delved into my worries of lacking the capability of mounting the stage for graduation, (https://banaanyablogs.org/2023/05/22/i-want-to-be-normal-coming-to-terms-with-my-disability/). Now, as a graduate, I can deliver an update: Amid graduation practice, as we strolled into the auditorium, my eyes immediately sought the stage. It consisted of four steps on both…
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I Want to Be Normal: Coming to Terms With My Disability
Graduating- a memorable, intimate moment, a lifetime memory. The air mingled with flurry, anticipation, fear, and reminiscence. It’s one final gathering with your class and teachers. The significance of it perpetuates endless thoughts. With graduation being in three days, the emotions are at an insurmountable level. Graduating undoubtedly consumes my mind heavily. Due to my…
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Standardized Tests are Scary: I Can’t Help But Freak Out
AP tests or standardised tests in general are an unforgiving, relentless black hole that suctions out any preparation, interlocks you into a cycle of consternation. Your head spins, your brain is frozen, and the words cannot be untangled encircle you. Or at least this is a repeated occurrence for me. Failure and helplessness to escape…
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Not Passing Up an Opportunity: Breaking Past the Mental Barrier
The tepidity of lacking compliance deters you from executing that certain action. It is like a straight flush, trumping whatever fiery desire present. Unless you pull out the royal flush conquering it… This weekend my friends sought to stop by a frozen yoghurt place. The idea appealed me, but once I envisioned my inability to…
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Not Running Away From Situations: Asking for help
A looming, foreboding event perpetuates a storm of butterflies, accounting for the multitude of possibilities that can arise. You seek, imagine, and generate a remedy for all the probabilities. You consider skipping the occasion all together. Last week I was entangled in this distraught state with the dreaded class picture. Due to my Cerebral Palsy…
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Coping With Bullying
Being bullied, pinpointed as a target, instigates a spiral of dread and believing that venom. I remember when I was bullied for years by a few a people; this one girl in particular blasted extra iciness. The dread and anticipation pulsed through me. Aaaa Everyday I would brace myself for the nasty remarks, the scorn…
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I Can’t Read Facial Expressions: Embracing it
Rather recently, I was mindlessly sitting through class, preoccupied with completing work from other classes. My teacher was asking throw away questions. Who is this? Dory. Who is this? Nemo. I said it matter of factly, expecting him to continue and explain whatever principle we were studying. Wrong!! He sighed exasperated. “You should know this,”his…
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My College Essay: Fearing Being Different
Hi guysss! Last time I elaborated on the unexplainable level of gratitude that my friends primarily are aware of my shortcomings and to not be perturbed of them noticing your struggles: physical, mental; it does not matter. Today, I will share my college essay on how my disability resulted in dread and avoidance behaviour since…