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The way I feel!
Some times I get very annoyed over the disability that I have, when I was 2 and half, I got meningitis and my mother was told that I wouldn’t be able to walk or talk again and I would end up in a wheelchair, I’m able to walk with out a problem and talk to people fine. I have a learning disability and went to a special school, while I was at school, I did get speech therapy and when I was 19 I moved up to Dublin in September ’92, I had more speech therapy in Trinity College in 1994/’95 for about six months to a year and again November 2001 for a about months or so but I do get annoyed and so angry with people ‘coz of the way they look at people with any kinds of disability, lot of people look only at the disability & not beyond it to see the person for who they really are. I wrote a poem called “I’m a Real Person” and the reason that I wrote this poem was because I felt and think, I still think & feel this way. I’m a Real Person I’m somebody with a disability But a person first A person who had a voice Which nobody understood The person behind this mask Found it hard to commanded Knowing what I wanted to say But nobody would listen Hid behind this disability Which was only a label? But I am a real person Which nobody could see! I can be ashamed of the disability that I have and other times I’m ok, do anybody else feel this way and get annoyed & angry with the disability that they have and do anybody get annoyed and angry with people and the way they look at people with disabilities? Shirley