In Nancy Mairs’s personal narrative, “Being a Cripple”, she describes how her disease MS, is not going to hold her back no matter how painful or scary because she is not the disease, she has a disease. She begins her narrative by first explaining why she calls herself a cripple, not any other name. Saying that, it describes herself better than ‘handicapped’ or ‘disabled’ and she likes to let people know she's a tough cookie calling herself that. She then describes when she found out she had MS which…
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