Category: Disability Experience

• December 29, 2017

  Explaining a Misunderstanding About People in Wheelchairs

  

  At age 16, I was diagnosed with a genetic, neurological disorder called Friedreich’s Ataxia. I’d been experiencing symptoms since age 11 with no logical explanation up to then. I staggered when I walked, I couldn’t carry a cup of water, and I dropped things a lot, but little did I know that my body cells…