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What is one thing about your condition you are thankful for?
For me I am thankful for the people it has allowed me to meet, without my conditions I may have never met some of my best friends and I also am thankful for my chance to be able to advocate and educate people on what they can do to make the word a more friendly and accessible place as well as general acceptance and education around what people with disability's CAN do not just what we cant't do and on how the way disability's "LOOK" in the eyes of the media is not usually accurate.
For me I am thankful for the people it has allowed me to meet, without my conditions I may have never met some of my best friends and I also am thankful for my chance to be able to advocate and educate people on what they can do to make the word a more friendly and accessible place as well as general acceptance and education around what people with disability's CAN do not just what we cant't do and on how the way disability's "LOOK" in the eyes of the media is not usually accurate.
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I also have learnt to make the most things like for example the weather - whatever it may be - i.e. there is no point wasting a day by wishing the weather was different. Another example could be being stuck in traffic and I will think and appreciate that I have a car and am able to drive it. I guess being able to see the silver lining in things is what I am trying to say.
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I am the mom of a young child with open defect spina bifida. I am thankful for the fact a local church has allowed us to attend church services together as a family without turning him away. I am also very happy that he was born at a time when advances in modern medicine mean he can access the health resources that are simply essential for his overall physical health like a pediatric spina bifida clinic, and so on. I am so grateful that he has a opportunity to fulfill his educational potential too like everyone else and that his disability does not define him. I could literally write a mini essay on this topic. I appreciate the fact he is on track cognitively.
And I am so thankful that he is loved and respected as well. I simply have learned not to stress over the petty details anymore and who to trust in addition. I am also grateful that my relationship with the Holy Spirit was only strengthened as a result of his diagnosis. But I am not grateful for doctors with poor communication skills however. I am happy that my son has options just like everyone else. I am even grateful that he can communicate with us, his family without needing to rely on a expensive bulky communication device to do so. And I am deeply grateful for mobility aids like wheelchairs.
I don't see any advantage in being disabled and dependent on so many for so much.
22 years hasn`t made me hate it any less.