Dragon Naturally Speaking--Empowerment for Disabled Writers and Workers
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Hello friends!
I hope you are having a fantastic weekend. I sure am. (I mean, it’s been really rough this past week as I am in the midst of a “pain event”—but things are looking up!) After years of dealing with disabilities getting in my way I finally have a tool to make my life better! And I could not be more excited.
Yesterday, I wrote a little bit about my experience and what led me to this point. I hope you'll take a moment to read it. Share it with others that you know who may be struggling with disabilities that make working and typing and writing difficult.
It's a bit of my personal story and how I came to this place of calling myself "disabled" and how my journey with Dragon Naturally Speaking is just getting started.
I shared this story in a Medium publication called Invisible Illness. The publication is about mental health struggles and other illnesses that are difficult to see. I find it's a wonderfully supportive community of others who suffer from a variety of challenges but never give up.
Mental health challenges and physical limitations can be extremely isolating.
I think it's important to stay encouraged but also to reach out to others and offer a bit of support.
Here's a preview of the article:
Your Physical Limitations Do Not Define You, Your Perseverance Does
A personal story about how I became a disabled writer
(This entire article is an experiment — you’ll see why at the end.)
Life
I was always taught that if you study hard, learn a profession or get a career, and then you apply yourself, then you will be successful. You work at a job, you never give up, and life will generally go well for you, of course aside from the normal ups and downs. But none of this looks anything like what my life turned out to be.
I didn’t go to college right out of high school because I found myself a very young woman with a very big, life-changing decision to make. You see, I was 17, bound for college with a full-ride scholarship, and to the dismay of my parents, I got pregnant.
(If you’d like to read about my story or if you would like to share my story with other people who deal with disabilities in their life and frustrations, then I think that you could encourage another person with this article. I appreciate your readership, your support, and your encouragement.)
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Christina