A Life Through My Eyes

My life started early around five months early to be exact, this is the event that set my life in motion. I weighed a pound and a

half witch is pretty small. People say that this makes me "special". The truth is I am no different than anyone else on this place

we call Earth. I have Cerebral Palsy, witch is caused by lack of oxygen during or shortly after birth. The case I have is called

static CP which means it only effects one side of my body. This doesn't make me special it makes me unique along with

500,000 Americans effected by CP.

People tell me everyday that I am special and in my own right I am. I feel as if I am always being treated as a five year old or

given special treatment because of my slight disability. I have always wanted to be treated normal and left alone, but people

seem to be fascinated with people that are different.

I spent three months in the hospital in the NICU, in an incubator that kept my oxygen and temperature stable. I am a miracle

to most people but to me I am one more person God kept alive for a reason. I don't know what that reason is but I hope to

achieve it to the best of my abilities. I am lucky because there are children born less pre-mature than myself and they will

never be normal. I play sports, debate, write, study history, politics and they can do none of those things. I am proud to be

different and proud to be unique. I will never change and proud of who I am, who I have been and who I will become.