Since I’ve been busier than usual this week, I decided to write a fun post where I shared fifteen, short interesting wheelchair facts and personal disability stories to put a smile on your face and show you what it’s like to be a disabled teen: . My first wheelchair was pink and had a picture… Continue reading Fun Wheelchair Facts and Stories
Category: Personal Experience
My 10K Wheelchair Roll for Charity
When I was sixteen, I decided to undertake one of the most physically challenging feats of my life: to push myself in my wheelchair for ten kilometres to help raise money for a school in Kenya. The ten kilometres ‘Walk For Water’ is a fund-raising event that every student in my school had to participate… Continue reading My 10K Wheelchair Roll for Charity
‘Hanging Out’ as a Disabled Teen
‘Hanging out’ is slightly different for a disabled teenager. Whether it’s going out to places, sleeping over, or simply chilling in a park – I know that my experience will always be somewhat different from that of my friends. Today, I mostly wanted to focus on the experience of visiting other people’s houses to hang… Continue reading ‘Hanging Out’ as a Disabled Teen
‘My Journey’ Part 2.5: Budding Passions and Early Friendships
(This is the second part of the post I released yesterday) On the other hand, my social life at this age was going well – I was just starting to find myself and discover my talents: My mother was a teacher, so every day I had to stay extra hours at the school after it… Continue reading ‘My Journey’ Part 2.5: Budding Passions and Early Friendships
‘My Journey’ Part 2: The Realisation that I’m Disabled
Group 5 (age 7-8) was a big year for me. So big that I decided to split this section of the series into two parts; one which I’m releasing today about the progression of my disease and the other about my social life at the time which I’ll share tomorrow. Group 5 was the year… Continue reading ‘My Journey’ Part 2: The Realisation that I’m Disabled
‘My Journey’ Part 1: The Diagnosis and Early Years
This is the first post in a six-part series I plan on releasing about ‘my journey’ from the diagnosis of my disease when I was a baby up until where I am now with my disability. In-between each ‘journey’ post I’ll release one of my usual ones before continuing with the series. This is ‘my… Continue reading ‘My Journey’ Part 1: The Diagnosis and Early Years
Weight-Loss Scare
Around two years ago, during the Summer of 2018, I experienced some trouble regarding weight loss and my self-image: I mentioned in my previous post that I used to go to Scouts for disabled children when I was younger. Some of the children there were overweight and therefore too heavy to lift, so the staff… Continue reading Weight-Loss Scare
Learning to Write With a Pen in My Mouth
This is part one of two posts I plan to release this weekend about being a pen-typer. Because I don’t have enough mobility in my fingers to be able to hold a pen, I type and write with a pen in my mouth. First, I thought I’d tell the story of why and how I… Continue reading Learning to Write With a Pen in My Mouth
My First Friend and Forgetfulness
I feel like when I was younger, I was constantly having to remind myself that I was disabled. I know it sounds like a crazy thing to forget but it never really affected me as a child, or rather I didn’t let it affect me. Physically, I was much slower than other children, walked awkwardly… Continue reading My First Friend and Forgetfulness
