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Who would want to hire a disabled person?

Over these past few weeks I have been going on interviews to be a special education teacher. This is my dream. This is what I have been wanting to do my whole life. Yet on these interviews I just see them looking at me from the outside. Let me tell you it is hard

I have yelled out in frustration
Cried my eyes out in sadness
Asked God why this is happening
Thrown myself a pity party

But you know what this week I have turned the corner and I have realized that all my life I have had to fight for myself and I have knocked down battle after battle in terms of my disability. I am a strong person and I need to put on a shield of armor and go into each interview convincing them that I am worthy of a job. I have gotten this far in my journey to becoming a teacher and I cannot give up now. So let me tell you why I am worthy of becoming a special education teacher.

I know what it is like to live with a disability and to be different like my future students have to face
Having a disability I have to create ways of doing something differently than the norm like my future students have to do
I am an advocate to my students for I have grown up fighting for my rights and now its my turn to fight for the rights of my future students
I know what it is like to be a minority and to have individuals stare at you and judge you like my future students
I know what it is like to wish to be apart of the "normal" crowd and not want to be different like my future students
I want to teach my future students to be strong, to be an active member of society, and to never give up on your dreams



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