Malika Bushey

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“I can do it”

9/27/07

I have always had a learning disability and when I was younger it was very hard for me.

 During school when I was younger people would take me to a special room where I would learn to read and write. I always will remember people calling me a case, and it made me really upset because I remember thinking that I am not a case. I am not a file. I am a human.  I remember telling people that I went to a special classroom when I would get taken out of class.

 Being called a case really brought down my self –esteem at that time. When high school rolled around it got even harder. I had a teacher telling me that I was stupid and that I was never going to pass high school let alone get into college. I am now graduated with a 3.4 grade point average in high school and now in my second year of college.

In high school I tried to keep my head up and not let people or what they said get to me. Words tend to stick in your brain which brought me down a lot in high school. That also pushed me to try to have more confidence in myself and to prove to people that I can do better. I wouldn’t let my learning disability get me down.

After that, I started getting good grades by pushing myself.  I proved to people that I wasn’t going to let it get me down. I worked really hard once I realized that I can do better. I knew that there was no way these teachers could label me and tell me if I was going to graduate or where I was going with my life.  It was time to take control of my own life. I turned my life around and I began to study hard. I began getting A’s instead of C’s. I started enjoying school instead of dreading and fearing what people might say or what rude comments teacher might make towards me.
After high school my confidence was way up there. I am now able to believe in myself and I know now that I can do it. No one has the right to take away my education.  I won’t let my learning disability get in the way or bring me down anymore.