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Day 761

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You need different things at different stages of your life– that’s what I learned today 🙂

It’s 1 : 44 PM on day 761 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself All Bran Flakes and apple  for breakfast, publish my Disability of the Day feature,listen to music and spend time outside – I can see why people are so passionate about saving the planet it’s really beautiful one of these days I’m going to plant a tree I don’t know how but I will 🙂

This morning I was reading the journal entries I made two years ago and I couldn’t help but want to hug that 19-year-old who wrote all those things I was so desperate for people to see me as their equal and treat me accordingly now how people treat me doesn’t affect the way I feel about myself because I know deep inside that I’m alright.   Has what you need from other people changed as you’ve grown?

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Day 595

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People are who they are, give or take 15 percent. That’s how much people can change if they really want to. ~  Mitchell (a character in the TV show Modern Family)

It’s 5 : 18 PM on day 595 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth,   feed myself All Bran Flakes for breakfast,  publish my Disability of the Day feature, drink Green Tea  by myself,   exercise my right hand – almost there need more practice  picking up and putting down a coffee mug with my right hand –hang out, feed myself  Batura and potato curry  for lunch and watch TV.

Today I was practicing picking up and putting down a coffee mug with my right hand and it really bothered me that my parents didn’t acknowledge how hard I was trying to better myself but now I realize that it  was nothing personal my parents didn’t make a big deal out of me picking up and putting down a coffee mug with my right hand because they can do it so easily I could tell them that the “simple” things I do are a big deal to me but you what why bother they are just not the kind of people who make a big deal out of “small” accomplishments and besides I already know (and am proud of)  how hard I try why do I need acknowledgement from my parents.  Do you sometimes wish you could change people and make them into who you want them to be?