Intellectual Identification Report

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If noted we are constantly labeled and we have a tendency to label each other, my mother had told me that I was labeled since the day I was born, and it goes with the saying “labels stay with you for life”. Well in my case that’s true and it's been my motivation ever since . I never understood why I am the way I am, do I have a purpose? If that's so, it's a miracle I lived when I was an infant. It started off with being born prematurely 26 weeks old and only weighing 1 pound, doctors thought I wouldn't make it. I was incubated for 4 months, having tubes connected all over me. Doctors had thought I had little time and a small chance to survive. In their mind if, I would’ve survived then I would be a disabled child, who would need physical therapy my whole life and going …show more content…
There was a point when I was in the hospital and my heart stopped beating. My mother was not allowed to see me, but the next day I recovered and no longer needed tubes or anything to help me breathe. I was no longer labeled ‘hopeless’ I was labeled a ‘miracle’ child. When my mother told me about that incident, I didn't believe it. She showed me pictures and they made me sad. To think that I was at the verge of dying and thinking what would've happened to my mother, but I'm here. I was considered disabled mentally and physically. I was forced to start school at the age of two for disabled children. I was developing like a normal girl, I was able to walk and talk and do everything like a normal child. Once I started pre-k and onto 8th grade I was placed with an the individual education program (IEP), had speech therapy, and had extra help. This held me back a grade because I was slowly developing normally. I would be at the same level with the other kids. I was bullied because I was “disabled”. I would get more attention and special treatment but, I never liked it. It made me feel like an idiot making me think something was really wrong with