If I could tell my 16-year-old self anything at all, the first thing I would say wouldn't be about Christ or relationships or bad habits. 16-year-old me wouldn't listen to that stuff anyway.
Instead, it would be, "Stop worrying so much about trying to do everything just the way able-bodied people do it. You can live successfully in the real world with your malfunctioning body, no matter what your family or the school counselors say. The 'real world' does make accommodations for disabilities, and you can do what anyone else can do, on wheels and in a quiet room with the lights dimmed."
And then I'd probably finish up with "But don't major in education, because teaching middle school is maybe the one exception."
For real, I listened to the voices saying that you have to be physically normal to be successful or happy for way too long.
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