The Christianville Spirit
The Spirit of Christianville
How exciting! And, this is was only The FIRST Day. Now, it’s time for the 2nd day. This one was on Friday, November 2, 2007. The first part of the day was The Presentation of Rick’s Photography at The Baylor College of Medicine and He calls his photography “Positive Exposure“. If you would like more information check out www.positiveexposure.org. It will show you how beautiful, as he says Special Needs kids and adults are. Seeing all the pictures of those kids made me realize that I am not as severe as some the other kids and adults are. After the presentation, Dr. Potocki announced that we were going to have a panel and invited people to stay to ask questions or just watch the panel. When, the panel started I was unsure if I wanted to go up there because I had never done a panel before and I thought we would be standing in front of a Podium and I was kind of nervous and then, I got the nerve to go up there and be a part of it. How we spoke was by a small microphone that we passed around. Well, for each question or discussion I got to voice my opinion. They did talk about something I specialized in and that was how I see people with Special Needs and I told them” I see in the inside not the outside” and I decided to ask the audience who saw people on the inside and I saw a couple hands and after that sympathized with the people that see the same as I do. One person asked about testing of Genetics before their children are born and I said that It was the parents decision whether they wanted it or not. After the panel, they told The Medical Students and Doctors that if they wanted to talk to one of us that they could. And, Guess What? SEVERAL Students came to talk to me and even ask me questions. Many of them where like “You were such an Inspiration to me” and according to My Mom .again, I made people cry because my inspiration was so good Dr. Potocki later on told My Mom and me that we were inspiring to a lot of people and that so many people want to meet us. My Mom was surprised that The Medical Students even came up and talked to me. The Presentation and Panel were BY FAR the biggest change in our life. My Mom realized during the Presentation that she was meant to be raising awareness about it. Rick, the Photographer told us that He did the photography but, didn’t have anyone to TEACH. And THAT was My Mom does best. So, I believe she is meant to teach people about My Special Needs and Special Needs in general. After that, was the photo shoot and He didn’t just take 3 or 4 Pictures of me. He took several pictures of me and other kids as well. Later, near the end of it all we thought of him as the Ty Pennington of Special Photography. (By the way, Ty Pennington is the exciting host ABC’s Extreme Home Makeover) So, that My Friends was the past 2 days. Like I told Dr. Potocki, “It’s amazing how your life can change in 2 Days”. All in all, It’s was awesome.
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