I used to hate myself because I wasn’t “normal”1.Everybody else could play on the monkey bars2 and ride on a bicycle, but not me. I had a severe spinal cord disorder3 and I knew I would always be shorter than others. I used to hate myself because I was not “normal ” 1.Everybody else could could play on the monkey bars2 and ride on a bicycle, but not me. I had a severe spinal cord disorder3 and I knew I would always be shorter than others