There are some aspects of your personality you need to grow even if you think it will change you for the worse– that’s what I learned today 🙂

It’s 7: 06 PM on day 440 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, drink coffee by myself,  prepare and publish my Disability of the Day feature, go to church,  go shopping – well everybody else went shopping I stayed in the car (my family took turns staying with me)  to be fair my dad did ask if I wanted to go but I could tell he wanted  me to say no so I did  it doesn’t matter anyway because I know this home-body stage of my life won’t last forever I will see the world and meet new people don’t ask me how I know I just do –prepare and publish my Kid of the Week  feature,  tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign – no luck – create a user for Holly-Scott Gardner–a high school student from York, UK who just happens to be blind (she and Jenelle Ramsami will be blogging for me on separate pages while I’m in India) –  feed myself rice and curry for dinner and brush my teeth once more.

Yesterday my parents invited some people over for dinner and just before one of them–the guest of honor – left she said specifically to me I’ll pray for you in that moment I felt like making a snide comment because she made me feel like I was broken but I kept my mouth shut which I have decided to do never again to jolt people out of ignorance into acceptance and to show them that disabled people can be happy in spite of their disabilities (when people first see me I think they think I am miserable all the time which is so not true it’s not even funny of course it sucks that I can’t take care of myself the way I want to but even that doesn’t dampen my spirits for too long because I’m learning how to do things and know that it’s only a matter of time until I’m completely independent). Are you the kind of person who avoids being rude even when people are stepping all over you?

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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!