It makes me sad...

It seems like the ones with the worst handicaps are the sweetest people. It would horrible to be a child and have to get around in a wheel chair. I do wish I could make them better. I think it is very unfair for young people to have diseases and to be handicapped. So very sad.

My heart broke whe i saw people like this .....I wish tht i could do some things tht make them better to feel da world like us ... Sometimes I wish to invent things tht help them...As i am student I am familiar with different topics regarding diseases that hgadicapped people for life...I wish some cure should be there to help them ....and u know somethng cool about handicapped people that they are gift of god ........they could amazing and incredibly things which we can't do ....really i had seen dis example in ma school there is a techer who is handicapped ,,,,he do things like us..and ....i really guesss your wish come true byeeeeee

For sure.....and its best to treat them like they are regular people. I do know a few handicapped people and they are very special...very~!

Hi Loving...I'm going to try and be as graceful as I can because I don’t know how to answer this, Why? Because I live it. My God daughter is disabled since she got the DPT shots when she was a baby. The first one caused her to go into seizures that night, but the docs didn’t correlate it, so when she got the next shot she went into seizures again and became brain damaged. She cannot talk, walk, feed herself, or toilet herself. She has worn diapers since the day she was born. Her arms and legs are almost useless. We help her to walk but her feet get all tangled up. Do I feel sorry for her, as in having pity for her? NO. She has a life and she is happy with the life she has. She loves her mom, dad, brothers and sisters. She loves her church family and everyone who sees her accepts her as she is. She is 23 now. She can sign daddy and mommy, and that’s about it. We know she understands us, because when we say something funny she laughs appropriately and squeals. She loves going to church. She gets happy when her mom sings or if music she likes is being played. She jumps up and down on her knees on the pew like she was a toddler. It’s the only way she can express herself. She doesn’t like her hair brushed, and she will make growling sounds because she is tender headed. Over all, it’s her life and she doesn’t know anything is wrong with her. No, I don’t feel sorry for her, but I wish she hadn’t been “allergic” or whatever to that shot. She would be like her brothers and sisters if that hadn’t had happened. That girl in the wheelchair is probably grateful she has one to get around in. She has a life and she probably wouldn’t want anyone feeling sorry for her. She probably wouldn’t want anyone paying much attention to her to show that she is different than anyone else, know what I mean? She would probably rather someone come up and ask her a question than to just look at her so that she feels like she is being stared at. That is really a problem with people being severely disabled. People stare. I’m not saying you or your husband did… but I’m saying that it is natural to stare and not even engage in a conversation with the disabled person. I would silently be grateful that my children aren’t disabled, but if they were I would want them to feel normal and not like they should be stared at.

I have meet friends with the same case like the girl though the difference is that they don't stuck on wheelchair in their whole life. Most of my physical challenged friends are getting bullied because of what they become and that is makes me sad. I sometimes get some arguments to others who are bully to them, well I don't want my friends getting bullied because of their physical status.

very sad to hear about that.

No I don't. I just see a person in a chair. They can do whatever I can do , just in a different way. The science is so much better. Your cutie can get a device to help with her hands and as long as she can move backward diagonally, she can do Anything. Don't feel sad , she is young and she is getting support? then she can do Anything!

It usually amazes me. People who are handicapped have to do everything that everyone else has to do, but they had to learn how to do it in a totally different way. It's pretty amazing. Like when people who have lost their arms learn how to do everything with their feet. I can't even imagine doing that. Really more than anything, it makes me grateful for having all my working limbs and being able to use all my senses.

it does break my heart but it also makes me happy to see them loving there life and wanting to do everything. Its a miracle im sure she is hear and im sure she has a great story to go with it. She is probably very nice and loving and caring for everything she does. Some handicap people are crazy and waht they did to save there lives. Hearing peoples stories is heartbreaking and the ones that were in war is just really sad and knowing that they did this for us is what hurts me the most. I of course wish i could help everyone in the world but im only me and one person but im sure there are people around that help the disabled and help them as much as possible.

Actually it doesn't make me sad. In fact, I marvel at some who are able to lead normal lives. They don't let their 'challenges' affect them. Yes it may take them longer to do a few things, or a different way to get to results, but most are as capable as others. I'm sure this 13 year old girl will soon be able to adapt to her challenge and capabilities.

The story of the little girl breaks my heart, i feel for her. for me we have to treat them as normal people so that they wouldn't feel they were feel like a lesser person. Even though they were not physically fit as normal people, they can do things what normal people can. We can make them feel better by treating them as one of us.

LovingMyBabies - you are absolutely right that seeing handicapped people makes me realize that how lucky we are that god made us like this. i really feel bad for the 13yr old girl you are talking about. i wish god gifted us some powers by which we can make people like her normal again. but alas there is no way we can do anything other than praying for her to make her pain less.

As long as she keep in her mind that she cant walk its never going to happen But long as she has faith in the lord anything can happen

As much as it pains to see a handicapped person and wish to assist them, we have to realise that they have a gift in them to overcome their challenges.

When a part of the body doesn't work another part of the body can do its job. For example she could paint with her mouth perhaps. Yes, her mouth could grip the paint brush. My disabled son is in a wheelchair due to having deformed feet and one leg longer than the other. He has got spina bififa and hydrocephalus. He can do things with his hands I am pleased to say. He is a bright little boy and his wheelchair is his way of getting around. He is four years old and goes to an normal primary school. He has an assistant to help him one to one.

lovingMyBabies oh my yes that is heart breaking just 13 and it makes me thank God so much for what I do have.Yes seeing handicapped people has always got to me even after years of wo rking as a nurses aide.I still remember Dr. Wales a small man with badly twisted legs but he walked with a cane and he ran up the stairs' n the old hospital. once he stumbled and I ran over to help him and he reddened and grabbed the stair railing and pulled his poor legs under him."No don't " he said. But when I got suddenly ill and went to the hospital in the middle of the night unable to keep even water down he was the doctor on call. and he was just marvelous. at first he thought it was the kissing disease mononucleosis but the next day I turned yellow even the whites of mny eyes. "aha, now I know whats wrong with you. you have Hepatitis' and we can cure you young woman." I had to have one big shot in the hip of gamma globulin then more oral meds. but in a week I was able to go home to recuperate.I had to go home and be on bed rest for a month but I owed Dr.Wales a big debt of gratitude. He had an odd bed side manner but his patients all got well because he worked until he knew just what was wrong with them. His twisted legs did not mean his brain was not working A number one.

All of us, who has no health condition, and are in the full use of all of our capabilities, very often misvalue them, seeing a handicap person, somehow reminds us this. We feel sorry for them, of course, but, this situation, tends to make them strong people, able to cope with their condition. With the right attitude, they can be happy and functional people, with many things to share and contribute. I hope, this is the situation with the poor girl.

Yes, I know the feeling of seeing others having difficulties. We want to be of help but we can only do so little. I have seen so many people who are handicapped like that and all I could do is make them feel like they are normal and make them happy by saying nice words to them and helping them in whatever way we can.

I am not the emotional kind of a guy, but I realized when I got older that times change, and the emotional state of people do change. My kids are growing up, and because of this, a certain nerve is strained everytime I get to see people in distress. It now makes me sad to realize that there are a lot of people who are in need of help. I am just so lucky that my kids are not in that situation.

Absolutely, I feel like crying and I wish to have superpower to make this people happy. But you know many of this people are smart. They want to learn. I hope this young girl will find her place. There are many institutions which could help her/I know because my own son is disabled person/with her education, her needs, to make friends, to have social life. I don`t know where you are living. I live in Los Angeles,CA and my son was client of CCS/California Children Services/.Now he is a client of one of the regional centers.They offer any services you could think about.