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Date: | Tue, 4 Jul 2000 11:48:59 -0500 |
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Hi Fellow listmates:
I'm going to combine this all in to one E-Mail.
First , I would like to introduce myself. I was born on July 5, 1971. It
was a complicated birth. . . I couldn't cry , breathe or suck. The doctors
thought I would be a vegetable the rest of my life. As a result of all of
this , I was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy at the age of three a half . I
am very physically disabled because of all of this. I can't walk , talk ,
or feed myself in the 'normal way." When I was four years old , I was the
Cerebral Palsy Poster child. I went to Day Care for that had disabilities
and Early Childhood. Then I went through all of school. When I was in
fourth grade , I was put in to a special education class in school. I used
to to drool a lot and I had a surgery to stop that. When I was a freshman
in high school , I had what looked like seizures but actually it was
suicidal attempts. I won the award for the outstanding handicapped citizen
for the state of Wisconsin. I went to college and double majored in Data
Entry and Accounting. I update telephone directories for a living. I do
about twenty to thirty a year. I do it right from my home. I also make
and sell my own greeting cards. As I mentioned before , I have had a lot of
problems with drepression and suicide. From 1992 to 1998 I was in
counseling and from 1994-96, I was hospitalized seven times because of this.
The reason of all of this is because I couldn't cope with having a
disability. My family consists of a father , a mother and three brothers.
I also have seven nieces and nephews . I collect angels. I'm really
involved on the Internet. I'm on several of ListServs, ICQ, AOL Instant
Messenger , and mIRC. My ICQ UIN # is 16632777. My screen name for AOL
Instant Messenger is KJPink. The servers that I'm usually on on mIRC is
BrightNet or ChatWorks. I have a Home WebPage . It is at
http://homepages.msn.com/WindowsWay/kjpink/.
It seems to me like my depression is coming back. Under my depression is a
lot of rage and hurt. I don't want to be like this (a person living with
Cerebral Palsy) all of my life. This past weekend all of the family were
home and they did some activities that I couldn't do and I felt left out.
Is it normal to feel this way?
School was hard for me. I was put in to a class that I didn't belong. Also
, I was teased a lot.
AOL Instant Messenger ScreenName KJPink
ICQ UIN # 16632777
http://homepages.msn.com/WindowsWay/kjpink/
SafetyEd International's WebSite: http://www.safetyed.org
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