1000 words

My story 

Sometimes a picture can tell a thousand works but can the picture tell the whole story?  What’s the story behind the picture?  Things look pretty normal but are they really?  Do you think there is anything wrong with the girl in the picture, she looks pretty normal; she must be someone who works really hard and is well educated.  This is kind of true for the most part.  What if someone told you that yes she has lots of friends that care about her and a family that loves her?  Would you think that she struggles like people with a disability?  Can you tell by the picture at all?  Can you put the pieces of the puzzle together?

You will not be able to find the pieces by just looking at the picture.  If you look beyond the picture you will see that this girl has a very mild form of Cerebral Palsy and ADD along with a reading disability that affects her spelling.  So now you know she must have had trouble in school but she looks pretty happy, right?  She had a lot of struggles but overcame them in the long run as most of us do.  It started in Middle School, the other kids made fun of her to the point where it was very hard to figure out who her true friends were.  There was a lot of whispering and pointing and laughing that caused her to become very shy and scared.  She was different yes but there was nothing wrong with that.

 I’d like to know what the definition of “normal” is.  Are people normal because there is nothing wrong with them?  That is not what the real world is like.  Everyone is different in the sense that no one looks or acts the same.  What makes the world perfect is that everyone is different and the diversity that allows us all to do our own thing.

She beat a lot of odds that were stacked against her.  Some of those accomplishments have been learning to walk, making decisions, advocating for herself with doctors, teachers and at work.  By accomplishing these things it allowed her to learn to drive and live by herself 2 hours from her family.

This girl now teaches other people with special needs.  She teaches them that it is possible to accomplish anything if you try and want it bad enough.  She teaches them to learn to advocate for themselves.  You might not become as famous as J.K Rollings, John Cena or Ryan Seacrest, but you can still reach your dreams by taking small steps and still be successful.   

Do you still think that you can tell the story by simply looking at the picture?  Most of the time there is a lot more to the story than meets the eye.

Bill porter

                                                           Bill Porter a true inspiration

He was born at 2:20 am on September 9,1932 to Ernest and Irene Porter.  Irene ’s pregnancy was a very hard one. Now, every parent would like to believe that their child is perfect and there is nothing wrong. Unfortunately that was not the case with Bill Porter. Mrs. Porter started to notice that Bill’s left had was not normal, his left hand would be clinched up where his right would be relaxed. At six months he was barley crawling and holding himself up like most children would. So Mr. and Mrs. Porter took their son to see a specialist to find out what was going on with him. As test were run and the results came in Bill would be diagnosed with Cerebral palsy.

 In the 1930s there was very little knowledge about Cerebral Palsy and what it was. So that would lead the doctors to believe that Bill would have vary little chances to lead a normal life and that he would be retarded and not amount to much of anything at all. As the Porters where told this it would naturally discussed then and they where in disbelief. Irene believed that her son was vary smart and could do just about anything. 

As a result to the diagnosis of Bills disability Earnest  Porter  would quit his job as a salesmen to make more time with his family and took a job at the intuition of handicapped children . As usual as every parent makes for there children so be successful the Porters  would never regret any choses they made to support there son . 

Bill went on to do great things like his mother believed he would and fallowed in his fathers footsteps. Bill had a vary hard time finding work because of his disability. so he thought that he would try going door to door as a salesmen like his father once did .However bill did one better then his father did he started his own  sales online . Until his passing on December 3, 2013 at the age of 81 years old . If you ask me thats not a bad life to have lived  and that his story shows how good hard work  and determination can pay off .