Tag: #teen

• 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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  #cerebralpalsy, #disability, #disabled, #fear, #hopeless, #independent, #motivational, #teen, dependent

• 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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  #advocating, #cerebralpalsy, #classof2023, #disability, #disabled, #fear, #graduate, #graduation, #motivational, #resolution, #teen

• 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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  #cerebralpalsy, #classof2023, #disability, #disabled, #fear, #graduate, #graduation, #highschool, #hopeless, #motivational, #teen

• Putting Yourself First: Learning to Say No

  Hii guys!!  Over the course of the past few days, a theme was introduced into my life.  Okay that’s a bit dramatic, but I learned something.  Yes, you should care and support your friends.  But at the end of the day, you are your own priority.  You come before them. My friend requested my presence…

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  #disability, #disabled, #fear, #friends, #motivational, #resolution, #senioryear, #sunset, #teen

• 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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  #anxiety, #ap, #cerebralpalsy, #disability, #disabled, #exams, #motivational, #standardized, #teen

• 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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  #cerebralpalsy, #disability, #disabled, #fear, #friends, #mental, #motivational, #opportunity, #resiliant, #teen

• Pushing Past the Judgement: Going For it Anyway

  Judgement is a brick wall that cannot be penetrated; it blocks your path, instigating no further action.  Judgement will always be prevalent.  It’s just in people’s nature.  However, you do not have to permit it to debilitate you.  This past Saturday I had my Prom.  Months ago I ruled to wear a South Asian outfit…

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  #2023, #cerebralpalsy, #culture, #disability, #disabled, #embarassed, #judgement, #lehenga, #motivational, #prom, #proud, #southasian, #teen

• 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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  #bullied, #cerebralpalsy, #disability, #disabled, #dread, #hopeless, #lost, #motivational, #struggle, #teen

• 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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  #cerebralpalsy, #disabilty, #disabled, #exppresions, #motivational, #resolution, #strgging, #teen

• The Power of Friends: Being Real With Them

  I know what it is like not having any friends.  Quite frankly it is the most desolating and lonely feeling ever.  Encompassed by laughing peers enjoying their time, you falter into isolation, yearning for at least one person that would provide the opportunity to be frothy with, to spill secrets.  You would desperately give anything…

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  #cerebralpalsy, #disabilty, #friends, #friendship, #real, #teen