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When I Was Pressured to Talk About My Cerebral Palsy in Class
I am like no other student. My mild cerebral palsy and the types of classes I’m enrolled in aren’t commonly seen together. My teachers, of course, are aware that I have cerebral palsy, but most of the students are not. I don’t make an effort to hide my CP — I walk the way I walk, naturally, and that’s that — but I don’t appear the way that society views a person who has a disability. Now that I’m much older and more mature, my friends know that I have CP and that I may need help sometimes — like a hand going down the stairs or stepping off of a curb, for instance — but it’s not a big deal to them, and I appreciate that. Yes, cerebral palsy is undeniably a part of me, but it is far from what defines me.