What I want people to know

• Just because a person has a disability and works at a supermarket does not mean this person is a bagger
• Just because a person has a disability does not mean that at 16 he or SHE did not go into a store and fill out an application on a whim to see what would happen on her own without any agency help.
• People with disabilities can, in fact, pass difficult, required standardized tests such as the PRAXIS II

Things are possible, I learn this more and more every day. On a bulletin board I saw a basketball team at a gym advertised and I thought of signing up. Yesterday my niece wanted me to dance this dance she choreographed as only an enthusiastic three year old can. She said "You can try it." And then told me "You're doing great!"

An epic journey.......Or "Making a smoothie"

Step 1: Get the milk out, and then you close the fridge on your left thumb and then spill the milk.

Step 2: Clean the milk
Step 3: Pour in milk, yogurt, frozen strawberries, and pineapple.
Step4: Blend
Step 5: Pour, and spill so that the smoothie goes down the outside of the drawers.
Step 6: Blend again but spill more putting it in there.
Step 7: Pour, then become tired of working on the smoothie, that one just puts the remaining chunky liquid/solid in the fridge.

Before you ever tell someone to stick it out

Let me tell you something no one ever talks about

There will be times in life where you have feet of lead,

You can't get out of your own head

Energy may rev a little, but still feel like you're experiencing a treadmill

I never knew this before, thought I could have fought through it all

But sometimes..it's just not meant to be

Things are possible

I attended the Uconn Women's Basketball game versus Louisville in Hartford, CT at the XL center w Something clicked within me.

Granted, I am five feet tall and already completed college. But it was just so much fun and I realized: I sell myself short. I looked at the court and said to myself "Hey I could run that; it doesn't look that big!" I pictured myself stretching with the team.
Another reason why I have been stuck in this post-college/grad school cashier phase is that I always wondered, "What have I accomplished to really say to people 'I made it?'" But it's not about specific achievements or even about myself but drawing other people out and encouraging other people to lead fuller lives because I am an encouraging person.

I often say to myself "Oh I don't like crowds" or "Oh it's too much walking."
Now, I'm not saying that Hartford, CT is like NYC and seeing a Broadway Show.
But I am saying, without my walker, just using my brother and grandma for supports, I did fine. I should not just count myself out but encourage myself to go more places, and even to be athletic