There are some places I won’t be able to go and some things I won’t be able to do – that’s what I learned today.

It’s 4: 58 PM on day 587 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to hang out my family, prepare and  publish my Disability of the Day feature, feed myself scrambled eggs  for breakfast, drink juice from a glass by myself, prepare and  publish my Kid of the Week feature,  work and help my brother with a school project – he had to create a collage of different types of packaging.

Yesterday was my sister’s Metric Dance – a South African equivalent of America’s senior prom – everybody was having fun until we went to see them off and I couldn’t get out of the car to  stand outside the school’s gate to see her entering the hall because  there was no parking I felt so different from other people that I cried –my sister  didn’t see me cry (thank God) she was in my uncle’s car– I knew and accepted the fact that I was different but I still wanted to do everything everybody else did now I have accepted that there’s some things other people will do that I won’t do and vice-versa. Do you know your limitations?