On Being A Cripple Analysis
“On Being a Cripple” Reflection This essay is very different because she points out a word that defines her and then describes how it doesn’t define her. When Mairs was a graduate student she got diagnosed with MS, a disease that slowly shuts down your basic body functions and ability to move. She doesn’t like the fact that she has this disease but she accepts it. She knows that dwelling on it and being sad all the time won’t fix anything. This is very brave in my opinion, when you have had something for your whole life and then it is all of a sudden taken away from you I think that most people would be very sad about this. She handled her sadness and frustration way better than most people in her situation would have. “Children experience