Trying to change people’s perception of you is impossible – that’s what I learned today 🙁
It’s 7: 25 PM on day 421 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself a boiled egg for breakfast, prepare and publish my Disability of the Day tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign – no luck – work on this blog, feed myself rice and curry for lunch, continue working on this blog, feed myself spaghetti
with sauce for dinner and finish working on this blog.
This morning my mother walked into the dining room, saw that I had eaten the boiled egg that was on the table and asked who handed it to you to which I replied I took it myself my legs may not work…but your stomach sure does she finished I was SO offended especially since I was going to say before she interrupted me I took it myself my legs may not work but my hands do but now I realize that it’s not worth being offended over because no matter what I say or do my parents will always believe that all I do is wake up, watch TV, eat and sleep. Do you waste your life trying to get people to see you the way you see yourself?
Are we connecting on Twitter? If not, say hi at http://twitter.com/Nisha360
If you’ve given to my cause or you can’t give now, please help me by sharing my cause with others. You can tweet about it like my friend Stan Faryna. This is the tweet he uses: @Nisha360 is a brave, smart young woman trying to make a better world for us all. Please help her do an amazing thing. http://bit.ly/hC7vOu
Stan’s very sweet for saying so, but feel free to write what reflects you best.
Thanks to all my friends out there who are helping me make my dream come true: to make a better world for all of us!
Hi, Nisha,
I am responding to your hello tweet from the other day. Please do not be too hard on me for not interacting more. My online time is limited. I cannot say much about the disagreement between you and your parents. I see it from the side of the parent. And, recently my dear mother passed away. I miss her very much. Perhaps you can try not so much for your parents’ recognition as to show yourself what you can do. They will notice. Eventually.
Hi,
I understand that you’re busy 🙂 I do do things to prove to myself that I can I just hate that my parents devalue it so much with the things that they say and do. I’m sorry to hear of your mother’s passing 🙁
Yours truly,
Nisha