Some people need to tear you down to lift themselves up– that’s what I keep learning 
It’s 4 : 43 PM on day 629 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself scrambled eggs and bread for breakfast, drink Green Tea by myself, publish my Disability of the Day feature, publish my Kid of the Week feature, hang out with my family, work, listen to music – I LOVE Megan and Liz (check out some of their videos at the end of this post) – and feed myself Greek yogurt for lunch.
This afternoon my brother said to my father beaming with pride check out the well that chechi (chechi means older sister/older female cousin in my parents’ mother tongue of Malayalam) built and in response to that my father said in Malayalam they probably put up a picture of some random well then to make matters worse he said with sarcasm in his voice well done Nisha your reward is in heaven it stung a little but it didn’t change the fact that I was proud of myself and what I did. Do you take to heart the words of those who are trying to tear you down?
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Nisha, I’m really sorry you had to experience that. I don’t know what I would do – well done on hanging in there, I think I’d just curl up into a little ball and avoid everyone.
It’s really ok I’m better than fine if I had to curl up and avoid everyone who was hurtful towards me I wouldn’t have time to do anything else
Living in a body that’s different to everybody else’s makes you realize that people being hurtful towards you has nothing to do with you and everything to do with how they feel about themselves for example, someone who feels inferior to you will try and shoot you down so that they can consider themselves your equal which is a crazy thing to do since we are all equal anyway.