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Day 1811: My fight to the death

I’ll always have to fight to be seen as a human being with something to contribute – that’s what I realized yesterday.

 

It’s  1 :  00  PM on day 1811 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, pray,  read Luke 1, publish my Disability of the Day feature, publish my Kid of the Week feature,   have breakfast,  learn one new thing –The longest mountain range in the world is under water. Called the Mid-Oceanic Ridge, this chain of mountains runs through the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and into the Indian and Pacific oceans. It runs more than 35,000 miles long, has peaks higher than those in the Alps and it comprises 23 percent of the Earth’s total surface. – and promote my Educate Generations campaign –  $4 656 raised so far (thanks so much for the support everyone :) ).

 

Yesterday something happened that made me realize I’ll always have to fight to be seen as a human being with something to contribute before yesterday when someone said something unintentionally hurtful or ignorant I assumed that only individual mindsets needed to be changed but something about what happened yesterday left me slightly crushed and made me understand  that for perceptions of differently-abled people to change I had to play a part in changing the societal mindset… it’s going to be a hell of a fight but it’s a fight that I dedicate my whole life to winning.

Day 421

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?

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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!