Dear World

A little about my life

Dear world,

 my name is Chloe and I guess it would be fair to say i'm not what you would call a normal teenager. you see, I have a disability called Cerebral Palsy - this means i'm in a wheelchair 24/7. This isn't a pity letter though. This is more just for people to get an understanding into my life and what it's like for people who are different.

Let me start by telling you dear reader,  about my education, Now, i'm only 18 so I know I haven't had much life experience yet although there is one thing I know far too much about, and have far to much experience with in my life already, and this thing  is bullying.  

When I was younger I attended a mainstream primary school but as you imagine that was no walk in the park. Since my third year in primary i have had to deal with horrific name calling and many of the other children in the school being genuinelly  afraid of me just because i'm a little bit differenent . They also used to post comments to my social media pages tellig me i was disguating and no one liked me and things like this . Most of my time throughout my entire education  i was alone, and if i wasn't alone i often felt as if I was. However, for a short while in high school things were better - i was finally making friends and beginning to feel like me again, after feeling like a shadow version of who I was.  

These happy times within high school didn't last. In my last year of high school the bullying started yet again, only this time i was far more serious. I began recieving threatning comments and messeges on my accounts telling me to go kill myself because no one would ever see me as a person. For the last four months of school people were throwing bottles at me and jamming them beneathe my wheels so i was unable to move. Anyway, that's a small part of my life and to be honest I never thought i'd have the courage to right about but i have to do something! I have now hit rock bottom (although i'm not going into details) I need people to realise that words can hurt just as much as physical abuse as many people can never erase the comments that replay in their head, this often results in depression as we begin to feel worthless. 

I know I'm different but no one can change who they are and  even to this day I have periods of time where i completely want to give up but here's the thing...

Life is hard. We get that but life is hard for everyone. We need to come together to help make the world a more accepting and loving place. You should never judge a book by its cover please remember this!

love,

Chloe x