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An Unlikely Heroine

Name: Marti McCuller
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Date: 10 Feb 1999
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I don't know what it is like to grow up with a disability, wondering about your future, your relationships and just generally how you will fit-in and survive. I do know what it is like when a disability enters what you thought was a neat and tidy life. Adjustment and accommodation become very familiar words, as do depression and grief. It is not just your problem, friends and family are affected, too! What can I do now? What can't I do? These are questions you have to ask even when you don't really want to know the answer. While you struggle to find your own new place in the world, those around you must find how they will relate to you also.

Peer support groups are one way to learn about dealing with such new circumstances. They often provide a comfort zone where you can stop worrying about your errors, and learn from those who have gone before.

In one such group I encountered an older woman, who had lived with her disability for many years. She whined, she complained, she said, "I can't, I don't, I won't". When focused on herself, which was most of the time, nearly ever sentence began "I used to love to ......". But, occasionally she would forget her disability, and then she was warm, witty, and full of that special wisdom that comes with age. I came to both love and hate this woman; she was, after all, a living example of what I might come to be.

Then, one very wonderful day, I saw things differently. I was listening to her usual diatribe of can't, won't, don't and in my heart I said, NO, NOT ME! In that moment, listening to her, I faced my own fear and moved on. Sure, there are things I can't do, but none of them will ever again be because I haven't tried. Thank You, Helen.

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