Showing posts with label MDA Summer Camp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MDA Summer Camp. Show all posts

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Perspective

Years before my blog turned into Kelly's Sustainable Life, it started as a blog to capture my summer as an intern for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (fitting, right?!) in Pleasanton, California.

The other day I was reading old posts while on a trip down memory lane and I came across one that I wrote toward the end of my internship that I want to share. 
The post is about the experience I had at MDA's Summer Camp. Summer Camp is a way for kids who have muscular dystrophy to be "real" kids for a week. 
When I was a kid I refused to go to MDA summer camp. I don't know if it was because I was scared, or just didn't want to be labeled as "disabled" but I was adamant about not going, and my parents never pressured me to. Sometimes I wish I had, but I'm at least grateful that I was able to finally experience it, even if it was in my 20's.