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Emily is my sister and I love her to death. She has cerebral palsy and is profoundly retarded. She can't talk, or walk, tho they're working on the walking. Shes 18, and soon she'll be receiving her first SSI check. I think a lot about how my life would be different had she been normal, assuming my parents still would have wanted another child. In school there are people with older siblings, and I just...when I was a freshman she would have been a senior, I'm a sophomore now. Last year I would always compare. I do a lot of complaining, my sister can't do this or that...but I guess it could be worse. She has nothing progressive, nothing wrong w/ her immune system. As I said, I love her to death, there are a lot of perks of your "average" sisterness that I get...I borrow her clothes and she doesnt care, I borrow barrettes and such, she never argues...I dunno. I wanna say more, I wanna sound more intelligent. When I was little I made a promise to myself, that she would never live in one of those homes...that I would get a good enough job so I could have her live with me. I don't know, I think I'm more mature, more spoiled, I'm an oldest child, a youngest child and an only child. I hate when ppl call things retarded, and I hate when they call them gay, it's basically the same principal. Well, maybe you got sumthing out of this.
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Every summer I volunteer at a summer school for kids with disabilities. Last summer I was in a class w/ 7 autistic kids and 2 kids with downs. I fell in love (not like that) with a little boy named Eric. He was 7. He was the cutest thing, he was little and he had these glasses that made his blue eyes look HUGE! I didn't know much about autism at the time. I knew I wouldnt get much eye contact, but that was about it. He did some adorable things, he couldnt talk, and on his little dynavox one time he wrose, "I was riding a lion" I thought that was so cute. Every day he came in w/ a different toy, usually a T-Rex, and they all had names. A couple of times outside he would just want to be alone and I got offended. I finally did some reading on autism and saw this was normal. Since then I ave done a ton of readin on it, and I'm facinated. Not that this is important, but ya know...
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