Note to reader: The following post is based on me personally venting my own personal feelings/opinions about this subject, I speak for no one other than myself.

Dear reader I was just on an FB page for people with disabilities(in case for some odd reason you don’t know this already I have CP, Cerebral Palsy) and I saw a person post that(and I am paraphrasing here) :

“He thanks God for putting him in a chair and letting him play this amazing role.”

I understand he has every right to believe whatever he wants, I just can never personally imagine ever being thankful for being in my chair.

I have been disabled for almost 29 years(My entire life) and I can say that I am thankful that I am alive and I can talk, understand, and move/feel my body however I am NOT thankful for being disabled or having CP.

I have come to terms with the fact that I have it and more than likely always will however if I ever get the chance for a cure with something like stem-cell therapy I would be first in line in a heartbeat, even just to get the knee surgeries I need to be able to stand up

(You would be amazed to know the amount of people I have run into in my life that don’t know that if you’re knees can’t support you’re weight you won’t be able to stand up, both my knees are really messed up, the why is a really long story).

I don’t think I am special just because I am disabled, I don’t even think I am special because of the “way I handle being disabled”(I have been told that by quite a few people) .

I just think I am myself, I don’t think my chair gives me “a special role” to play. If I do have a role to play it’s because of who I am as a person NOT my chair or because I happen to have had a brain injury at birth(how I got my CP), that’s what happened to me NOT what defines me.