Contemplating getting older and societal pressures, Meghan also dishes out helpful Advice 15-year-old girls with a disability. I’ll be thirty-five in June, and it’s totally messing with my head. I feel so guilty even admitting that because my little brother didn’t see his 17th birthday, and my best friend died just shy of her 30th as well. So, I know that I’m lucky to be topside. That’s not what this is about, it’s about the traps that society sets for us that we all inevitably fall into. A big portion of my personal trap is life doesn’t look at all like I thought it would when I was fifteen. Yes, I started planning things out at fifteen–I’ve always been a little bit more mature than people my age. I guess it’s a side effect of being disabled, dealing with life-altering surgeries, tedious physical therapy sessions, and understanding that life isn’t fair and certainly isn’t going to stop and ask your opinion. Life made an already pretty seriously dispositioned kid into a pretty mature person all the way around. Anyway, I had goals. The same ones as anyone else. Job. Marriage. Babies. There are multiple reasons why I don’t have any […]

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