I’ve wrestled with absence seizures and other health challenges since before I can remember, but they never truly felt like limitations any more than not being able to fly was. Why? I learned early on that this was just my unique handicap in the game of life (pun absolutely intended), and play got to adjust accordingly – not stop altogether.
As I approached adulthood and things like driving and living alone weren’t viable options, I had a choice to make: do I listen to the voices that shout “all or nothing,” and let the big no’s discourage me? OR do I hold true to the viewpoint I was taught find a different set of rules to play by, even as that grew trickier?
Well, my friend, “raise up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
And, thus, The Able Life was born: a framework, solidified by a community, with which to transform the “can’t’s” in your life into “how’s.” A team behind you, encouraging you to smirk in the face of the impossible and spit out, “watch me.”