Chasing The Lion
To let you guys know me a little better, I was born and raised in Western Oregon. I have three older siblings, a brother and two sisters. I was homeschooled for the most part, I took classes with tech centers and co-ops, I just graduated from high school this last June. I kinda began to wonder how many people with disabilities go to college in Oregon. Recently I found out that OHSU did research on that same topic. This is what they concluded:
27.3% of adults in Oregon are disabled.
27.3% of adults in Oregon are disabled.
In Oregon, about 14.6% of people with disabilities have less than a high school education, 26.5% have a high school education only, 38.5% have attended some college or technical school, and 20.4% of people with disabilities are college or technical schools graduates.
Nationally, 20.6% of people with disabilities have less than a high school education, 29.8% have a high school education only, 31.0% have attended some college or technical school, and 18.5% of people with disabilities are college or technical school graduates.
Now, to be honest, I actually thought this would be much less. Oregon DDS is more about independent living than getting a secondary education, and if you have a disability and live in Oregon, you know this. I'm all for independent living, I really am. I want to live with roommates one day. But I'm also all for secondary education. I believe that if you want to do something, you can do it if you work hard enough for it. The percentages above should be higher...like much higher.
There's another thing you should know about me, if you don't already, I hate it when people tell me what I can and can't do. I'm not talking life in general. I'm talking physical abilities. A little over a year ago, my mom was talking to the dean of the equestrian college that I had been dreaming of going to since eight grade. The dean heard that I use a walker and sometimes a wheelchair, and assumed that I couldn't do their program. It was not okay. You see, I want to do ministry through horses. That day when I was more or less declined by this college, a Christian college, I might add, I had two options: I could fight against them because it's against the American Disability Act to turn a person away because of their disability, or, I could go to a college that believes in me. I chose the second option.
"Every dream is created twice. The first creation is mental. Every invention, every business, every building, every painting is conceived in the right-brain imagination first. It’s nothing more than a single-cell idea at that point. The second creation is physical. You make it obedient to Christ via blood, sweat, and tears.
If your dream is a book, you make it obedient with a keyboard.
If your dream is playing professional sport, you make it obedient at the gym.
If your dream is making music, you make it obedient one note at a time."
-Chase The Lion, a devotion on YouVerson.
There's another thing you should know about me, if you don't already, I hate it when people tell me what I can and can't do. I'm not talking life in general. I'm talking physical abilities. A little over a year ago, my mom was talking to the dean of the equestrian college that I had been dreaming of going to since eight grade. The dean heard that I use a walker and sometimes a wheelchair, and assumed that I couldn't do their program. It was not okay. You see, I want to do ministry through horses. That day when I was more or less declined by this college, a Christian college, I might add, I had two options: I could fight against them because it's against the American Disability Act to turn a person away because of their disability, or, I could go to a college that believes in me. I chose the second option.
"Every dream is created twice. The first creation is mental. Every invention, every business, every building, every painting is conceived in the right-brain imagination first. It’s nothing more than a single-cell idea at that point. The second creation is physical. You make it obedient to Christ via blood, sweat, and tears.
If your dream is a book, you make it obedient with a keyboard.
If your dream is playing professional sport, you make it obedient at the gym.
If your dream is making music, you make it obedient one note at a time."
-Chase The Lion, a devotion on YouVerson.
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