THE BEING

When, you are born with any kind of disability, your life is faced with challenges. That is what I and 17 million people around world with Cerebral Palsy our face with every day of life.

As we all know Cerebral Palsy is “a condition marked by impaired muscle coordination (spastic paralysis) and/or other disabilities, typically caused by damage to the brain before or at birth.” But to people with Cerebral Palsy and the one that take care of them Cerebral Palsy much more that.

When we are new born and up to the age of 18 or maybe less we are care for not only by family and/or love ones, we are also cared by the state we live and/or medical professionals but as an adult we are scene as something less or not at all.  Oh yea your family and/or love one are still behind us but event sometime for them to see us as independent adults (if the Cerebral Palsy we have is able to let us be fully and/partially independent) it still can be hard for family and/or love ones to let us go but they do in the end (hopefully)

It is hard for people who don’t have any knowledge don’t have or have been around someone with Cerebral Palsy to truly know what Cerebral Palsy is to being with but when you an adult with Cerebral palsy it can be even harder do to the fact that no matter how education is out there about children and adolescence.

It’s hard to understand what might become an adult or anyone with Cerebral Palsy because unlike the disabilities and/or conditions Cerebral Palsy a straight forward disability and/or conditions. The reason for this because Cerebral Palsy has four not for degrees not four stages just four types.
The four types of Cerebral Palsy are:

“Mild Cerebral Palsy means a child can move without assistance; his or her daily activities are not limited.” (http://www.cerebralpalsy.org/about-cerebral-palsy/types-and-forms)

“Moderate – Moderate Cerebral Palsy means a child will need braces, medications, and adaptive technology to accomplish daily activities.ly activities are not limited.” (http://www.cerebralpalsy.org/about-cerebral-palsy/types-and-forms)

“Severe – Severe Cerebral Palsy means a child will require a wheelchair and will have significant challenges in accomplishing daily activities.” (http://www.cerebralpalsy.org/about-cerebral-palsy/types-and-forms)

“No CP – No CP means the child has Cerebral Palsy signs, but the impairment was acquired after completion of brain development and is therefore classified under the incident that caused the Cerebral Palsy, such as traumatic brain injury or encephalopathy.”  ( http://www.cerebralpalsy.org/about-cerebral-palsy/types-and-forms)

Do to the fact there are different type of Cerebral Palsy, there different types of aging health issues that go along with them and event if you are someone or know people with same type of Cerebral Palsy they still aren’t a 100% alike.

This is what is hard about being an adult with Cerebral Palsy; People with Cerebral Palsy don’t truly follow the same pattern and the medical professionals don’t truly understand because they don’t study Cerebral Palsy in adults.

What we do know as individual with Cerebral Palsy like me and other 17 million around world is that we are just as capable or close to capable to do just about anything we set are minds too.

In this Facebook page and on my other plate forms we with discuss and talk about all things adults with Cerebral Palsy. Please join as our first topic how we the adult with Cerebral Palsy sees themselves.

(Note: I suck at writing I suck at spelling I will get help at times when I see fit but I also want this to show my weakness and/or other people weakness to show and to make you understand the challenges we face day to day. Writing and spelling happens to be one of mine. Until I happen to get discovered by someone or win the lotto to pay a scriber this is all me.)