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Personal Narrative: My 7th Grade Class

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My 7th grade class was given a series of challenges to understand what it was sort of like to be a person with a disability. The hardest challenge was not using your dominant arm to put a shirt on and button it. It was hard being that I couldn’t button my shirt, but some of my classmates were able to button it up and down to get the shirt on and off. I was very sluggish being that I had to restart and make a new strategy to get the shirt on. I was frustrated with the activity where we were not allowed to talk at all, but we had to mouth it. I was depressed when I couldn’t get my shirt on and I had self-pity with my sloppy mouth writing. In all the challenges we did were really hard and

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