16 YEAR OLD WITH MILD CP

E20ROSE · 03-14-2001, 03:05 PM

My name is Eleanor and I was born with cp.I would like to get to know a bit more about people with my disability and therefore would like a pen friend via e mail.
My email is:E20ROSE@aol.com

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ruddfan · 03-14-2001, 06:13 PM

I have a 6 year old daughter that has mild CP. She gets along great, and does very well at things she tries to do. Was it easy to cope with your disability while attending school?

E20ROSE · 03-15-2001, 12:01 PM

Was it easy to cope with your disability while attending school?
I am sitting my GCSE's in the summer and I found it very hard to cope lower down the school.
I found that the advantage of having cp was I used a computer since i was 5 and have grown up to be a computer wizz kid.
The advice I give your daughter is to join a nice group of friends and to keep active.
The advice i give to you is to not help her too much cos my mum has not helped me that much and I am in mainstreem school, with a good friendship goup and quoted by my tutor'I wish all my students were as good as Eleanor because shes hard working and never gives up when things get tuff.'
My cp is called choreo athetoid ataxia.Has your daughter been diognosed with a perticular type of cp?

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E20ROSE · 03-15-2001, 12:05 PM

Was it easy to cope with your disability while attending school?
I am sitting my GCSE's in the summer and I found it very hard to cope lower down the school.
I found that the advantage of having cp was I used a computer since i was 5 and have grown up to be a computer wizz kid.

ruddfan · 03-15-2001, 05:55 PM

My daughter uses the computer a lot just to play some learning games on it. She has some very good friends, all the kids in her class are really good with her. If she needs her shoe tied or anything they are there to help her. She wears an AFO on her left leg, to help her walk. She gets along very well, and loves sports. Last year she played soccer and karate earlier this year, she lets nothing stop her. She walks very well, just a little limp that most people don't even notice. She has never been diagnosed with a paticualar type of CP, just said it was mild.