{"id":4954,"date":"2017-05-10T14:58:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T14:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/njcts.org\/teens4ts\/?p=4954"},"modified":"2018-03-22T20:43:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T20:43:50","slug":"2017-njcts-youth-scholarship-award-essay-the-same-kind-of-different-as-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/njcts.org\/teens4ts\/2017-njcts-youth-scholarship-award-essay-the-same-kind-of-different-as-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 NJCTS Youth Scholarship Award Essay: “The Same Kind of Different as Normal”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the essay I submitted to the NJ Center for Tourette Syndrome & Associated Disorders (NJCTS<\/strong><\/a>) for their 2017 Youth Scholarship Award contest.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Rose P.<\/p><\/div>\n

“All the world is full of suffering. It is all so full of overcoming.” – Helen Keller.<\/p>\n

We never think of the simple tasks we do from day to day like getting dressed, making our bed\u00a0in the morning, even just writing our name on a piece of paper as difficult. These are things that normal people take for granted, but in second grade these were my biggest struggles. I was constantly losing\u00a0control of my body and then gaining it back just as fast. It’s a misunderstood neurological disorder called\u00a0Tourette Syndrome.<\/p>\n

As a child I didn’t understand what was happening, why I had changed and became so different\u00a0from my classmates. Why I could no longer be just as normal as they were? I could still run, jump and\u00a0play. I was constantly exhausted because even when I tried to sit still, my body was in constant motion. I\u00a0often had to be sent home because I was unable to sit in my chair at school when my tics became too\u00a0severe. Every day I would go to bed with the desire to be “normal.” Every morning I would wake up with\u00a0the hope that one day my tics would go away. The only thing was, it never happened. Through it all I\u00a0began to admire Helen Keller for how she lived her life and had been able to overcome being both deaf\u00a0and blind and still learned to speak and go to college. I knew that if she could overcome her differences\u00a0so could I. That one day I would be able to beat my Tourette Syndrome.<\/p>\n

Even today I may struggle doing things when I have a day with more tics than usual. I have\u00a0never let my Tourette Syndrome get in the way of what I want to do in school and in life. I am able to\u00a0dance, perform in plays and compete both in swimming and on my school academic team. I have come\u00a0to learn and accept that being different is being normal for me. The word normal can only be defined by\u00a0how you see yourself and shouldn’t be defined by how others see you. I feel that because I am not as\u00a0normal as others, I am able to understand people from a different point of view. I can better understand\u00a0what people go through medically and emotionally when they are unsure of what may happen next. I\u00a0have also wanted to help people my entire life. As a first grader, my dream job wasn’t to be an actress or\u00a0movie star like other kids my age; I wanted to be a scientist and work at St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital to\u00a0help cancer patients. I didn’t even know what cancer was, but I wanted to find out and make a\u00a0difference. Now, my dream job is to be a nurse at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Tourettes has\u00a0never stopped me from following my dreams before, and I don’t feel that it will stop me now, either. I\u00a0was able to overcome many things as a child; I still do every day of my life. Being a nurse will allow me\u00a0to help the children who may be going through their hardest life challenges, whether they have cancer,\u00a0or another disease or disorder. I will not only be able to help them medically, but I will be able to show\u00a0them that if you are determined enough to do something, anything is possible. Just because you have a\u00a0disability or disorder doesn’t mean you have to live your life as such. We all determine our own destinies\u00a0in life, for me that’s beating Tourette Syndrome and becoming a nurse. Normal and different is only\u00a0what you make of it. It doesn’t matter how others see you. You are your own kind of normal and that’s\u00a0the best kind there is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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