Cerebral palsy, Autism, Down Syndrome it doesn’t matter all of us just want to know that people see us and not our “disabilities” – that’s what I learned today

It’s 7: 36  PM on day 567 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to   publish my Disability of the Day feature,  work, feed myself sweet potatoes with plain yogurt  for breakfast,  drink tea by myself, continue reading Mockingjay  – the third book in The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins –  feed myself vegetable burger  for lunch, watch TV, feed myself an avocado for dinner and brush my teeth once more.

As you may or may not know today is World Autism Awareness Day and in honour of that I would like to introduce you to Carly from Canada who speaks without words and defies what it means to have autism every day of her life what really amazed me about Carly’s story was that it was not that different from mine in that we want the same things. Take a look at the video below and you’ll see what I mean: