"A handicapped miracle that one day will run a business and be a published author, that was the dream, that dream now manifested in the pages you are reading, I was a success, the boss, the big man, the head honcho, the big cheese.
Enough about food and big things, the biggest thing awaits in this chapter"
I guess for the first years of my life I was pretty content on not knowing the end or what was next in the slew of procedures I would endure over my lifetime, I was happy knowing that I was able to play and be a happy kid for a while.
That is until I started hearing one word repeatedly: "MIRACLE"
People who knew my story kept calling me a miracle, and it wasn't until years later that I understood why they kept calling me a miracle.
I had always heard other words and phrases such as: CRIPPLE, LOSER, NO LEGS, RETARD and the ever so nice: YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABORTED, YOU USELESS TRAIN WRECK.
It wasn't until years later when I started hearing those comments that I knew it was time to stand up for myself, so that's exactly what I did.
With the help of my parents, I drafted a letter of which I was going to read to my class on a Friday during free time.
A letter expressing my feelings of being labeled as previously written.
So I read the letter, and every single student stared at me, eyes either glassed over with boredom or beaming with curiosity, I couldn't tell because part of me was teeming with the anger bubbling inside me, ready to blow like Krakatoa.
After finishing the letter, I heard a slew of mutters, some were mean, some were O.K., some sounded like plain old gibberish.
But that's what you get when you put a guy in a suit in a wheelchair in front of high schoolers.
"High schoolers are so mean, they think it's cool to make fun of a guy in a wheelchair who's trying to stand up for himself.
God save the day when I'm able to stand up for myself"
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As Told From The Wheelchair: "A Fight To Survive"
No FicciónJohn is a 25 year old living with a disability that should have killed him, Wheelchairs, surgeries and so many other details that can only be told from the person in the wheelchair who's life story entails this and so much more. Join John as he nav...
