maybe next time..

My entire life I have been around mentally challenged people. For starters my two brothers are challenged, but they are very well off because God has truly blessed them! Just being around them for a long period of time made me think that they were normal because to me and a few others they are normal. They know how to hold a conversation, dial a number, and any other ordinary thing, but in our home I cant see them as anything other than normal. I remember the first time that I met some other mentally challenged people. My brother was in a bowling league for the Special Olympics, and I went to support him. I had no idea that there were people who act that way. I thought that my brothers conditions was how everyone else conditions were as well, but i was totally wrong! I met some people there that just scared me. Not to sound mean or anything but I was only about 14 years old and I had no idea how to act around them. Some of them were really loud, others were really quiet, and some of them just had loud dramatic episodes. I talked to a few of them because they had came up to me and asked me my name, and then one of them hit on me. Mentally handicapped or not my dad took the father role and made me sit down with him. I really love my brothers and yes at times they get on my nerves because they cannot do certain things and I have to do it, but I know in my heart that they truly appreciate all I do for them and I can really tell by the way they love me. I would have loved to have gone to AFI, but I guess there's a next time. This trip probably would have taught me a lot. By all of the stories that I heard I can tell that it really touched and moved people in many different ways. I just know by the things that I've heard about the trip i really want to go whether it's on my own time because I really want to care about something other than myself because that gets so boring. Caring about others is a lot more special than just going through your daily motions.