D'you mean, was I a spoilt brat or a bitch?  Well, I dunno... I'd like to think not.  I've never been one to go for the limelight, and frankly, I've never thought it was my God-given right to ride over other people just because I'm disabled.  My parents taught me everyone needs consideration, able-bodied, or disabled, and that included good manners and consideration for other's feelings.  My mother's mother ("Nana") lived with us, and she was also disabled, so I wasn't treated as if I were the prima donna of the family.

Now, I do admit to being arrogant sometimes when expressing my opinion but I think that's being outspoken, not a spoilt brat or whatever you want to call it.

Kat





"St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I can't imagine this, Kat, but did you "step" on people to excel?  Did you
consider it your "right" because you were disabled?

-----Original Message-----
From: Kathleen Salkin [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 1:51 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: kyle's varied past


Oh, yes, my parents pushed me harder to socialise and do things than they
did my sisters (although if you were to ask them, they'd say I was let off
easy).  My teachers were rather easy-going about pushing us to excel until
the 5th grade, when my teacher then woke up to the fact that a few of us
brighter disabled students were going to be mainstreamed and we were
woefully unprepared for it.  So thus began a two-year effort to bring us up
to speed, which I hated at the time, being rather lazy about studying, but
later, I was quite grateful.

Kat