Describe your first experience with someone who had a disability?

Question

What life lessons did you learn?

Answer 1

The first experience with a PWD was myself since I was born with various Disabilities.  :-)

Being a PWD has taught me that I need to be a Self-Advocate on a daily basis. We PWDs are the experts on what we need in order to live our lives successfully. But in order for us PWDs to live our lives successfully, we PWDs need to self-advocate for ourselves. The reason why I am saying this is because there are various Non-PWDs who have patronizing attitudes thinking that they know what we PWDs need in order to live our lives successfully.