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“High school isn’t a very important place. When you’re going you think it’s a big deal, but when it’s over nobody really thinks it was great unless they’re beered up.”  ― Stephen King, Carrie Late August, 1980. The beginning of my three-year stint at South Miami Senior High School was not, shall we say, an […]

A PlayStation customer service representative spent 10 hours last month customizing a game controller specifically for a hardcore gamer who has cerebral palsy. Peter Byrne, 21, of South Amboy, New Jersey took to Facebook to share his experiences after he emailed Sony PlayStation about the game console’s fourth edition controller, which was causing him issues when […]

Cerebral palsy is one of the most common motor disability disorders in the world. It ranges in severity from severe motor dysfunction to light spastic movements. Regardless of the severity of the disorder, many children with cerebral palsy go on to have successful lives. These following celebrities with cerebral palsy aren’t willing to let their […]

The 1979-80 school year was a bittersweet period in my life. I was about to turn 17 that spring, so I was perhaps one of the oldest ninth graders at Riviera Junior High School.  The fact that I was one or two years older than most of my peers was a source of extreme embarrassment […]

When a 6-year-old Woodlands, Texas boy with cerebral palsy told his mother he wanted to try running, she did her best to get him into the sport. Apparently, the decision has paid off. Runner’s World reports that Reed Kotalik understands that his leg don’t work properly, but that didn’t stop him from getting into a sport that would […]

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” ― Anaïs Nin Late Fall – 1979 When I was 16-years-old and a ninth-grader at Riviera Junior High, John Perry, a friend from Ms. Allen’s English class, sidled up to me one December day as we lined up to go to the cafeteria […]