I didn't know at the time that I first became blind that my life was going to be difficult and hard to understand things like everyone else. However when i became old enough to walk i could tell i was different that other kids even though i couldn't see or hear anything. I would get so frustrated knowing that i couldn't see what was in front of me. I didn't think i was very smart or would amount to anything but my mom knew and had hope in me. After i was getting trained in how to deal with my disabilities and learned to live with them i began to see that i was actually very smart. In fact before Anne came into my life i had learned how to make over 60 signals to communicate with my family and nurses. My first and only instructor that i ever
My People with Disabilities Single Story Narrative In 6th grade, I remembered seeing the ambulance outside the windows of my elementary school. I was in the classroom when there was a rush of EMTs entering the building. Students all started to run towards the door, including me, but were told to get back to our seats. Throughout the day, I was wondering who might have gotten hurt while praying it wasn't my sister or brother.
A hearing loss can present many obstacles in one's life. I have faced many issues throughout my life, many of which affected me deeply. When I first realized that I was hearing-impaired, I didn't know what it meant. As I grew older, I came to understand why I was different from everyone. It was hard to like myself or feel good about myself because I was often teased. However, I started to change my attitude and see that wearing hearing aids was no different than people wearing glasses to see.
As a young child, I remember how my grandfather's disability affected my life. I don't think that I even knew what the purpose of his wheelchair was. To me, it was just a toy, just another toy that my cousins and I could play with.
Maybe it’s the fact that I tend to stay in my room all weekend, which leads to people thinking I’m studying when in reality I am probably binge watching a TV show or maybe it’s my glasses, but most people who don’t know me too well assume that I am smart. Now that is a great thing for me because I don’t have to try as hard to impress them, but I end up finding myself in a bit of a problem. The problem is that everyone thinks I enjoy admiring school textbooks. But the truth is I’m usually admiring my Justin Bieber poster on my bedroom wall. Ever since I was in sixth grade I’ve been a huge fan of Bieber. His music always brought a feeling of calmness and back in the day his “never say never” motto, was what I lived by. I might still be living by that motto because I’ve decided to write this essay
As I’m sitting here typing this, I thought this assignment would be easy but it’s not. How do you explain who you are in a paper? Where do I begin? Well, for starters, my personality, ambitions, and what I love doing should be the best standard for defining my character. One should never be anxious if they do not know everything about themselves, as we are constantly learning and discovering new features of ourselves. Personally, I am satisfied knowing my friends are worth it and consider me an asset. I’m the shortest one in my group of friends which puts me somewhat the end of the ladder. Someone might judge me just because of the way I look or act but, if they could just get to know me even more and see my personality they can see me in a whole new way.
The air hung around them, tensed and quiet. The fragility of her emotion was threatening to shatter. It is as if that time stood still for her. She fingered the brim of her notebook, nervously and took notice of the cup of coffee on her side. Controlling the sudden urged to drown the caffeine all at once; she carefully picked the cup and warily sipped its content. It had long been cold, and her tongue appreciated that fact.
I became who I am today because of a life changing experience that occurred in late-November of 2013. As I sat waiting for the awards ceremony my palms got sweaty and the butterflies in my stomach multiplied. The announcer seemed to drag on the awards for hours when in reality it was only minutes until first place was awarded. It was then that I realized I was a State Champion.
My primary personal objective for this experience was to put myself in my cousin’s shoes. He has cerebral palsy and I had never thought anything about it. To me he is completely competent and has achieved so much in his lifetime thus far. I don’t see him any different than anyone else, but I wondered if other people viewed him differently.
There are many things that have molded me into the person I am today such as being born into a family with four children. With three siblings, I have been forced to be able to work out problems from stealing each other’s toys to having to rush to the emergency room to get stiches because my brother chased me around the house and I tripped. My mother, father, brother, and two sisters were all born in Pennsylvania and I am the odd ball and I was born in Adrian, Michigan. From when I was a child I always loved being involved with sports because of my competitive nature. I grew up playing soccer and having success with that but then my love changed and I began playing lacrosse and football. I started playing lacrosse in middle school and played
If I told someone I had a disability one may never know, and that's what makes me who I am today. Throughout middle school I struggled severely with academics. I felt hopeless and constantly thought to myself that I would never be able to improve academically solely because of my disability that I was newly diagnosed with. At that time my self-esteem along with my self-confidence was unquestionably at an all time low. Entering high school, I wanted to make a change in myself. I knew that times were becoming serious and I wanted to prepare myself as best as I could for college, leading to a successful future. I had high expectations for my future and knew what kind of life I wanted and what kind of life I wanted to give back to my family. Experiencing my single mother struggling to support me after going through one of the most harshest divorces a child could imagine, I also dealt with improving myself after being diagnosed. The diagnosis allowed me to become more motivated than ever to make a change in myself not only for
From the time I was a young child, I have always known I was different from others. Although I didn't realize I was in any way "smart" until around the fourth grade, I had been skipped up to the first grade from kindergarten. While friends struggled with homework assignments, finishing them came easily to me, like riding a bike. Supposedly - I've never ridden a bike.
During second grade, my brother absolutely hated school. We would arrive at school every morning, and as I exited the car to go to my classes, he refused to move. Almost every day, he had to be carried out of the car kicking and screaming and dragged to class. His grades were slowly slipping and he wouldn’t talk to anyone about his meltdowns. The whole family became worried. Eventually, my parents took him to get tested, and the doctors diagnosed him with ADHD. Throughout that whole ordeal, I was just on the sidelines. It made me feel so powerless that I was unable to help my brother when he needed it most. I was unable to help my brother, but I decided I was going to help other children with special needs.
I realize that blind people are important for us to not make fun of them or hurting their feeling that being blind is hardest for them. For me, if i have a blind person in my family or friend I got to cheer them up that being blind is not bad as being normal because some blind person can be talented and successful in their life. I tell them that I study psychology in school and there was one day that the teacher makes me being blind and I realize that being blind is not bad as they think but makes me experience how I do the normal activity is harder than when you have an eyes. It makes me understand the feeling of having no vision on everything is not the worst thing on your life.
I have always grown up in a more ‘normal’ setting and seeing people with disabilities was something that was rare to me. When I was younger, my thoughts on people with disabilities were that they could only be physically seen, nothing else (mentally, intellectually, etc.). As I reached middle school, I realized how broad the world is and how many ways people were affected by disabilities. Some of them led a more normal life and some have a harder time adjusting. Just seeing and reading how so many are affected and how harder it is for them really opened up my mind and allowed me to have a wider perception of how broad things are in the world.