teen brain health presentation This week, I had to do a presentation on a topic I chose to advocate for about the brain. My topic was cerebral palsy. I chose to do the topic of Cerebral Palsy because I have a little brother with it. Cerebral Palsy is a collection of disorders caused by abnormal brain development or damage to the brain that occurs around the time of birth or early in life. When he was born, he was born three months early and he died for seven minutes. The doctors always said he wouldn’t be able to function like a “normal” person would. They always said that he wouldn’t be able to eat, speak, or function like I would. He is very much alive and can do pretty much everything “normal” people can do, except walk. He eats by himself, he can most definitely tell you something that he remembers from the day before. He walks, but using a walker and that's it. I absolutely hate the stigma around any people with disability, because it sucks to know that people are called stupid or dumb or anything mean because of something that isn’t their fault. They didn’t choose to be that way and they are more than capable than doing anything they want just like I am. They should not ever be put down because of something that they can't change. It can affect them greatly and make them do bad things. They shouldn’t have to go through more when they already go through enough.
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