{"id":174,"date":"2011-05-24T00:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T00:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2011-05-24T00:13:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T00:13:00","slug":"not-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Not Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-xFtHzTihsWk\/Tdr4qz1zBxI\/AAAAAAAALdY\/kYfM67FRGXc\/s1600\/apr14%2Bmom%2Bbread%2B%25287%2529.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-xFtHzTihsWk\/Tdr4qz1zBxI\/AAAAAAAALdY\/kYfM67FRGXc\/s320\/apr14%2Bmom%2Bbread%2B%25287%2529.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610069700197418770\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Attention, when it comes to my health, makes me beyond uncomfortable.  I  had a hard time announcing my pregnancies in person and usually got my  husband to do it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Born with a birth defect I have spent much of  my life trying to be included in the normal category&#8230;    I soon  realised that there is no normal and that we are all broken in some way.   This made me decide invisible was a good choice.  I worked hard, in my  youth, at being unnoticeable and thanks to the in-obvious nature of my  birth defect I was really successful at not being pointed out for this  fact of my life.<\/p>\n<p>I started to share about the birth defect with  more people once I was older, because I really do see the miracle in it  all.  Based on the diagnosis my mom was given when I was born I am a  walking talking miracle&#8230;  It was painfully soon that I learned to hold  back on the amount of information I gave.  People got WEIRD in their  reactions and responses.  Some would all of a sudden treat me as  fragile, others would make jokes&#8230; and although I don&#8217;t mind slip up  comments about my birth defect I am not big on being mocked with jokes  about it&#8230;  and all so often I got very judgmental comments about being  content in living with it.<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230; after years of trying to be  indistinguishable amidst my circle of acquaintances I have recently been  diagnosed with another reason for attention.  While the specialists  wondered how I felt about being saddled with a genetic disease I was  only thinking about one thing&#8230; oh great, now I have to figure out how  to painlessly tell everyone&#8230;. As far as I know, the other kids in the family from my generation have all had negative results for the gene.<\/p>\n<p>All I can say is I am not  special!  We are all broken, we all die of something at some time and we  all pass on and are passed the death gene by our parents.<\/p>\n<p>The final thing I want to say is my God is good, all the time, Jesus is GOOD.<\/p>\n<p>TTFN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention, when it comes to my health, makes me beyond uncomfortable. I had a hard time announcing my pregnancies in person and usually got my husband to do it&#8230; Born with a birth defect I have spent much of my life trying to be included in the normal category&#8230; I soon realised that there is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}