I Am Proud To Be

I am proud to be unique.
I am  proud to be beautiful.
I am proud to be kind.
I am proud to be intelligent.
I am proud to be creative.
I am proud to be funny.
I am proud to be honest.  
I am proud to be clever.
I am proud to be hydrocephalic.
I am proud to be legally blind.
I am proud to be intellectually disabled.
I am proud to be autistic.
And oh yeah, I am proud to be…
Me.

This has to be one of my favorite poems. it’s in a simple format that really looks like a grocery list. Typically, when people say that they are proud to be, they mention they’re proud to be intelligent, clever and so forth. In this piece I call out the fact that I’m proud to be disabled. You don’t hear that very often, so I just want to make it known that God made me a certain way for a reason. Therefore, I’m proud to be. This is not to say that it isn’t difficult but you can’t have a testimony without going through test.”