Family Interview Assignment

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The person I interviewed for my interview assignment was my dad. He has always been there for my brother and knows more about his disability better than anyone. My dad is fifty-two years old and is a retired NYPD police officer. I interviewed my dad about my older brother Chris. My brother is twenty-nine years old. He is no longer in school; he has been out of school since he was nineteen years old. He had graduated a year late because he was behind in a lot of schoolwork. The disabilities He has is epilepsy and Asperger syndrome. My brother was only born with Asperger syndrome, which is a form of autism. Epilepsy runs on my mom’s side of the family but my brother was not born with the epilepsy he has to live with. With my mom having epilepsy, …show more content…

The next time he got bullied was in 2003; the same kid followed my brother home and pushed my brother face forward onto the concrete in front of my house. The neighbors had taken care of him until me and my babysitter got home and that’s when the cops were called. My brother had suffered a severe concussion from getting pushed and that is when everything started to go bad. After suffering form the concussion, he got diagnosed with epilepsy. When he got diagnosed, the whole family had to make adjustments as to how we were going to accept the different changes that were going to be made. Before my parents decided to have a VNS (Vagus Nerve Stimulator) put in my brother to help with his seizures, he would have seizures almost everyday and not just one, he would have four to five seizures a day. In 2006, my parents have found a doctor to put a VNS in my brother so if he had a seizure, all you had to do is a run a special magnet across his chest and it would control the nerves in his neck and brain. He would come out of the seizure right away. They had this installed because my brother was missing too much school to where he was not going to graduate on time. After the VNS was installed things were …show more content…

It was easy for him when he had just the autism but, once he got epilepsy, my dad realized it was a challenge. He realized that you couldn’t take life for granted because it can change anytime. It made my dad realize you have to work for things to make it easier on my brother. You have to be persistent about things or they will fall through the cracks if you fall behind. My dad had to make a lot of changes to be consistent with my brother. The way I see my perspective on my experience with my brother having a disability is that it is definitely different because you have to make changes in life to adjust to his changes. I had always felt bad for my brother because he had autism but once he had seizures almost everyday, I saw how life could change in the blink of an eye and that it can be short. I always try to help out as much as I can with my brother so it is easier for my dad and my

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