Personal Narrative: My Disability

Words: 1344
Pages: 6
Open Document
On November 14, 2016 I picked up my wheelchair at 11:45. I already hate elevators so this absolutely sucks. I will have to use an elevator every day because my dorm room and classes are not on the first floor. I also could not figure out how to keep the chair in a straight line the whole time I had it, I also could not figure out how to turn it while moving. The first day was very long. It was time to leave the ED Center and go to class, which is in Thomas Auditorium. It was going to be very interesting getting to class. I had finally made it to class but it was very long. This is how it started. When I first left the ED Center I had to go down this little slope, well little when you are walking, but it was huge in a wheelchair. I thought …show more content…
I made it across the street but then my next big obstacle came, an incline. But with a backpack it made it really hard, the wheelchair already seemed to be back side heavy but when you add a heavy backpack and an incline it is not a good mix. I had almost fallen over backwards, which is where I made my first discovery. Do not wear a backpack with the chair it will not end well. Wheeling along the sidewalk I had began to notice the chair would not stay in the middle it kept moving to the right which is where the street was. So at one point I had gotten stuck in the edge of a crack. That is when I first had someone ask if I needed help. I wanted to say yes but I also wanted to figure it out on my own, so I declined and went back to trying to get myself unstuck. When I had made it to class the door to the classroom had swung out towards me but thankfully I did not have to struggle with the door because someone …show more content…
While in my dorm I was thinking of different ways that I could get to class, which again was in the ED Center, and not have any hills. I remembered that I could take the elevator to the basement and then go into the Ed Center through the lower level door and take the elevator up to my next class. I was proud of myself when I had finally made into class. Also with the fact that I did not need to “cheat” to get there. I give people credit for making it everywhere that they do when most of this school has all of the hills and bad pavement/sidewalks that they do. It is hard enough to go down a steep slope but also have to avoid all of the cracks that you get stuck
Show More

Related Documents: Personal Narrative: My Disability

Scholarly Personal Narrative Analysis

Introduction Scholarly Personal Narrative (SPN) is presenting an issue from a personal perspective. Unlike traditional scholarly writing, SPN tells the personal story. SPN merging together the individual story and research. It provides the reader with deeper understanding on the specific issue and perhaps develop insights towards future research. In this capstone, I am going to use the SPN perspective for sharing my personal journey as a mother to a child diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder…

Words 426 - Pages 2

Essay on Assisted Suicide

The idea of assisted suicide is a very, very slippery slope in my opinion - not that I don't approve of people having the right to make their own choices as to when they've had enough, but it could lead to lawmakers and other people in positions of power deciding that people with certain conditions or with a certain degree of severity are not worthy of being alive based on some subjective measure of "quality of life". We've already seen it, with disabled people (particularly developmentally disabled…

Words 805 - Pages 4

Social Determinants Of Health Case Study

The Effects of the Workplace on Social Determinants of Health Employment and working conditions can provide financial security, social status, personal development, social relations, and self-esteem and protection form physical and psychological hazards (Block, Sheila & Grace-Edward Galabizi, 2011.) Precarious employment is low-standard, low wages, short contracts, little to no job security or benefits. Lack of employment is associated with physical and mental health problems that include depression…

Words 1229 - Pages 5

Foster Care System Analysis

More youth are being separated from their families and are being sent to foster homes. As more youth enter the foster care system they are also staying longer periods of time. Therefore, something is not working as efficiently as it should be in the foster care system. Children and youth are being sent to foster homes because the types of relationships that they encounter at home with their families are no longer healthy relationships. There are multiple factors that may increase the risk for child…

Words 2164 - Pages 9

Rain Man Philosophy

Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advance Learning Stephenie Gillingham Date: 01 March, 2015 Philosophy of movie: Rain Man is a 1988 American show coordinated by Barry Levinson and composed by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass. It recounts the narrative of a grating and narrow minded yuppie, Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise), who finds that his alienated father has passed on and granted the majority of his multimillion-dollar home to his other child, Raymond (Dustin Hoffman), a mentally unbalanced academic…

Words 1224 - Pages 5

Rhetorical Analysis Of Skeletons In The Closet

due to its usage of fantastic word choice. The aggressive tone and emotionally packed language help convey Elk's message as well as convince her audience with regards to her thesis. In using this language, Elk helps the readers in perceiving Elk's personal thoughts and experiences on the topic. Readers feel a sense of psychological connection with the problem the author is going through. Her use of parallelism with other racial minorities and how their rights are also taken away in this regard also…

Words 597 - Pages 3

Essay on Family Genogram Project

Narrative Family Counseling Approach Research Paper Keltic University Abstract Narrative therapy is a social constructive philosophical approach to psychotherapy that has been developed to help clients deconstruct their negative and self-defeating life stories while rebuilding healthy and positive life stories through the use of various techniques. This paper will discuss the leading figures, some concepts and techniques, ethics, some similarities and dissimilarities of other theories compared…

Words 3531 - Pages 15

Essay Personal nerrative

Personal Narrative When I was in about the fourth grade I strive to be just like the other kids in my grade but I didn't feel the same as the other kids in my grade. I use to go to other classrooms rather than be with everyone else. I use to hate leaving the classroom and feeling like I never fit in or wasn't good enough like the other kids. I would always ask “why can’t I be with everyone else” or “why can’t I stay here?” the teacher would just tell me “we are going to learn in a…

Words 665 - Pages 3

The Great Depression In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

the early 1900’s. The longer background to the novels setting is The Great Depression, originated in the U.S. and was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. Many people, especially men, lost their jobs due to personal income, tax revenue, profits, and prices that dropped. This affected the rich and the poor. In Mice and Men there are two main characters, George Milton & Lennie Small. George Milton is a hard working farmworker, as it states in the book, “small…

Words 1085 - Pages 5

Living On Almost Nothing In America Book Review

$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America Book Review If she did not make plasma deposits twice a week at a donation center in Tennessee, Jessica Compton and her family would have no income. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter Brianna, in Chicago, have gone for days with nothing to eat other than spoiled milk. The Harris and Compton families’ stories are just two accounts of devastating poverty documented in sociology professors Kathryn Edin and H. Luke Shaefer’s book, “$2.00 a Day: Living…

Words 1776 - Pages 8