As someone with cerebral palsy I will say that the best thing I have learned is to listen, obey, and doing what my body asks me to do. The fact that cerebral means brain and palsy means paralysis the thing I must do is to remember that the brain tells the rest of the body what it will put up with and when to take a break and sometimes lay down or take a nap. If I do not it may mean that my brain synapses may cause tremors or seizures. Therefore you will never find me up all night unless I take a really long nap during the day or I am sick. I take my naps seriously which sometimes causes my husband to become frustrated because he believes everyone should be able to power through their day just as he does many a days.
The fact is I have dual diagnoses cerebral palsy(of course), seizure disorder, and depression meaning that the combination makes it harder to go about life like a person with only a single diagnosis like depression would never understand. The fact that all three of them affect the brain alone is not good as well.
Life is life and everyone is different so please remember to not judge a person by what they look like on the outside. The fact is that there is more going on behind the scene just as the beauty of a person is not always on the surface. Get to know a person before you assume that they are healthy both inside and out before you make an assumption.
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