My best friend’s 5-year-old daughter recently learned that her muscles are difficult to move because she has cerebral palsy.
The day my friend formally introduced her daughter to her diagnosis, her daughter couldn’t wait to share the news. “Miss Kelly, I have cerebral palsy!” she proudly proclaimed over video chat. “And Mommy says you do too!” Her confidence in knowing that her symptoms had a name that she could pronounce immediately struck me.
Here was a little girl who inspired me, not because of her challenges but instead because she completely owned her cerebral palsy.
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