All her life, Isabelle had had a left hemiegha plegia. A disability in which the whole left side of her body was partially paralyzed. The generalised term, and what most people said Isabelle had, was cerebrtal palsy. Isabelle was 16 years old, and before now, Isabelle hadn't let her cerebral palsy get in the way of anything she wanted to do.
Eversince she was a little girl, most of Isabelle's dreams involved driving a car. Isabelle wanted to get a little pale blue car and drive around town in it, driving her friends around, going for rides with her dog, Rosa. She even wanted to use the car to drive her little sister, Vanessa to her year six farewell.
So when Isabelle was told by her doctor that she would never be allowed to get her liscence, she was shattered. At that very moment, Isabelle felt as if her life and her dreams had been snatched away from her. For weeks, afterwoods, Isabelle couldn't talk about it without breaking into tears. All her friends would get their drivers liscences, and Isabelle felt like she would be the only one in the world who wouldn't. But that wasn't true, because Isabelle was not the only one who couldn't get her liscence. There were many, many people who were medically barred from driving.
As the months passed, and Isabelle got used to the idea of not being able to drive, she slowly found new dreams she could work towards. Then Isabelle became determind to make driving the only thing that her cerebral palsy stopped her from doing. So, when she graduated from school, Isabelle decided that she wanted to be a phychologist for disabled people, because Isabelle knew that she could help make a difference in their lives and that her cerebrral palsy would not stop her from doing anything else.
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