Cerebral Palsy

I have Cerebral Palsy on my right side, and you see my arm. I hate to stretch it. Cerebral Palsy causes my muscles to tense up. I hate to stretch. That's why you see my muscles stretch, uh, tense, uh, my arms up to my shoulder. Don't know what to say. It's a muscular disease. Anyway, that's why, as you can see, I'm trying to, trying to stretch. Anyway, that's what it causes me. Anyway, that's some of the physical effects.

When I was a baby with cerebral palsy my parents put me on a blanket and put the toys a little out of my reach and allowed me to cry with boredom to motivate me to move and reach and do things for myself and I gained strength. I am grateful that they did not put me in a wheelchair and do things for me but it made movement my responsibility. They were not overly protective and allowed me to experience things for myself, to fall and get up.

Hi, I have Cerebral Palsy on my right side and I was born with it. My mother took me home. The doctor said I should have been put in an institution but my mother took me home and she helped me along the way. I learned to talk when I was about three, learned to walk when I was about four. She let me do what I want. If I said I couldn't do something, she said you can put, you can do whatever you want, you just do it. So that's what I've been doing all my life is if I can't do something, I will work until I get it done and that is help. And I get picked on all the time as a child and as an adult but I ignore that and I keep going. I push, I go one step at a time and that's what the Lord wanted me here for, just to grow from my disability. And if people are mean, ignore that and keep going. Don't let people tear you down.