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A couple weeks ago, I got close with my ex, Mark. Thing happened and we just went straight back to square one. People were blaming him for saying all the things on my Ask.fm about Emma (see below if necessary) but, I really know that it wasn’t. Mark isn’t like that, he knows how much Emma means to me, knows how much I hate the words that were used, and would never go so low to say all the sick things that were said. The fact that people were blaming him is pathetic. You’s probably don’t even know him and judging him from all the shit that both of us have already been through before in the past. STOP asking both of us about it from now on, butt out of our lives and stop giving us greif.
To anyone, who has ever said anything, who thought about saying anything about my cousin? I’d just want to say fuck you all. You’re all sick little bastards who have basically bullied a ten year old girl who knows nothing, all through me. She’s beautiful. Just because she’s different from all of us and not ‘normal’ doesn’t mean she should be judged. All people with disabilities are the cutest people ever, they’re strong and go through a hell of a lot. I have so much respect for them, because why a cunt to someone who hasn’t done anything but lived their lives to the best extent they can?
I’m sorry for the big rant, and sorry if someone finds it ‘attention seeking’ but I got asked, and I’m only answering. Nothing will ever change the way I feel about people with disabilities, or about my cousin. I love her, so god damn much, she’s fucking perfect.

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Okay, so whoever it was who asked this question, you’re right. I do get people asking me all the time what is wrong with my cousin, if she’ll ever get better and the whole situation that happened over this website a few weeks ago.
Emma was born on July 18th, 2002. I was only five. At first I didn’t know what was going on, why Emma was the way she was and nothing really about disabilities at all. As I got older, I was told over and over again, getting new information every time and finally realising what Emma’s condition was. Emma suffers from Cerebral Palsy. This is when a faulty happens in the brain when it doesn’t develop fully. Therefore, this affects motor conditions that also cause physical disability to various areas of the body movement. Unfortunately, Emma cannot walk and never will be able too, so she had a wheelchair. She also cannot speak. Although, trying to teach her the past 10 years has paid off because she can mumble words such as mum, dad, granny and papa. They are understandable. Other than that, harder words and also when she is bringing a sentence together, she uses either her Dyno Box which is a machine that talks for her, or she just uses sign language that all of her family understand and also have to learn. I always get upset about her because it’s really hard. It’s hard to watch her see other children running around, having fun and doing what they want. As Emma cannot walk, she is unable to do the things she wants to do. She cries, gets stressed and is always tired because she doesn’t have the strength of a ten year old. Whenever I’m with her, we do have fun. We basically act like best friends, or even sisters. I let her jump about on me, boss me about and basically we just have fun. The best part of going away on holiday with her is when she wants to cuddle at night and go to sleep. Not only is everything so stressful for Emma herself, but also for her family and friends. People look at her in the street, sometimes smiling and other times with the snide looks. Every single time someone looks at us in a bad way, you just want to turn around and ask what the problem is, but you can’t because everyone does have their own opinion. This one time when I was in primary 6 which also carried throughout to primary 7. Something really bad was said about her, a few times. This hurt me, my mum, her mum, my gran, my brother and my dad. The words ‘mongo’ and ‘retard’ were used to describe her and they are the most hated words I could ever think of using. To indicate to myself that my cousin was a ‘mongo’ really hurt me. From then on, I realized how sick and low people could be. I still get it a few times of websites such as Ask.fm but also in person, over the phone etc. I get so angry about it, that I make myself cry. As much as I wanted too, I’d do something about it. I know I can’t because this hasn’t just happened to Emma.....

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WILL CONTINUE IN ANOTHER Q THING.

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