All any of us wants to know is that the other person gets where we’re coming from – that’s what I learned today 🙂

It’s 4 : 45  PM on day 561 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth,  prepare and publish my Disability of the Day feature,  work,    drink tea by myself,  feed myself a peanut butter sandwich for breakfast and play Donkey – the card game  – with my cousin’s kids (it’s school holidays here so they came to hang out with us).

This afternoon my parents were having an incredibly petty argument about my father making burgers for the other kids before he made one for me – I wasn’t even hunger – and my father said you always ask if Nisha ate do you ever ask if I ate in that moment I was so angry seeing as he could walk to the kitchen and get his own burger sometimes I feel like my family thinks I am the way I am by choice that they don’t understand how badly I want to do for myself the things they do for me. When you are interacting with people do you try your best to see things through their eyes?