What does it mean to have CP?

I used to get asked about having CP all the time when I was a kid and it would really make me uncomfortable. I didn't want CP to define who I was. I wanted to be Tara... a girl who liked to sing and watch horror movies and read and who also happened to have CP. I wanted it to be an after thought, because to me it always was. I would remember when I would fall down, or trip or have to go to PT or have to put on my AFO's. 

Even as an adult I would get asked "What's it like?" And the reality is.. I have never known anything other then having CP. It's not like I woke up on a random Tuesday and all of a sudden walked 'crooked' or had trouble keeping my balance. This is me, for the last 33 years, and weather I like it or not it's never going to go away. And honestly now I don't know if I even want it to. CP has made me who I am in a lot of ways. It has taught me to never give up, to never judge a book by it's cover and to never be afraid of the dreams I have no matter how big and scary they may seem.

Any person with a disability (or a challenge) is a true miracle. But please don't ever let that challenge define you.

So this is Me...

Hi out there..
  I am writing this blog as a outlet, an inspiration and I way to connect with others like me. I am a Mom, I am 33, I am a housewife, I am a tech geek, I am a music lover, I am a book nerd and I am a woman that is living my life with a "disability". I have cerebral palsy. I have had this condition (as I prefer to call it) all my life. Although I have never really felt all that special, but I have decided to start embracing this unique charitaristic of my being that is know as CP. And it has occored to me that there are many others out there with CP, some younger and some older then myself, that I would love to connect with.


That's all for now. :)