Birds of a Feather
Q. Do you normally roll (no pun intended) with other handicapped/wheelchair kids, or with normal kids?
A. 99.99% of the time I hang out with normal kids.
There was this one kid in my old elementary school in Tijuana, we were in the same grade, same class even. He also had Duchenne MD. What are the odds? Two Duchenne MD kids in the same class? Especially in TJ, where health care blows.
We ran in the same circle, but never really got along. At the time, he could still walk but you could see the disease progressing. He stumbled a lot, had trouble getting up, and moved like a penguin. They were the exact same symptoms I had when I was a baby.
He always ripped on me for some reason. I think it was jealousy. I got better grades, I was cuter and, to be honest, friendlier. Not that he wasn’t exactly friendly; he was just bitter. You know what, though? I think the real reason he was jealous was because, since I was in a chair, people sympathized with me more than him. I guess the chair is more socially acceptable than walking funny.
