It’s taken me eight plus years to work through my experiences. But one thing is for sure, I am not in the same emotional space before I started writing. I have come a long way.

Understanding our experiences

It is only when we work through our experiences and we’re looking at the bigger picture that we understand our experiences, and how others make us feel, how they make their decisions. I know why I wasn’t told about my diagnosis even though I have medical notes that confirm there was a diagnosis at the age of 2.

A disability ignored

With any diagnosis there is so much more to the diagnosis than just the diagnosis. If it was only about the diagnosis, there would be no issue, but all diagnoses have implications. Having cerebral palsy meant I had neurological and emotional implications and those we’re totally ignored.

My far reaching implications

Growing up without taking my neurological and emotional side to my disability into consideration had far wide reaching implications that I continued to struggle with throughout my life. Truth be known, my life and what I’ve had to deal with throughout my life has been one big struggle.

Although in the early years I wasn’t fully consciously aware of my symptoms and it was all about a non-diagnosis, as I began to grow up it became very clear what my neurological and emotional struggles were and that they were totally being overlooked.

Our many struggles, without a thought and consideration from others as to how we might or will cope, is often the reason we don’t always have to forgive.