Briel Adams-Wheatley

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We Need To Talk with Paul C. Brunson · Born With No Limbs: I Didn't Want To Be Their Poster Child! Briel Adams-Wheatley · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

I honestly internalized it all and kept it more to myself just because we had a big family.

And I felt like I was already taking so much of my parents' time for them to make sure that I was physically independent that I felt guilty in trying to go to them or anybody else about my mental or emotional state of mind of what was going on.

I feel like I would just talk to myself, even just going up and down the stairs.

I'd have full-on conversations with my head about where I was at.

And then getting ready, I'd have conversations with myself in the mirror.

A lot of them weren't nice.

I think a lot of them were just me saying, I hate my parents so much.

I don't understand why they're so hard on me.

I don't get why they push me harder than they push any of their own kids.

I just don't understand it.

I don't feel like this is fair.

But then it wasn't until the seventh and eighth grade that I was like, oh, no, I actually don't want my mom with me in the bathroom and I don't want my brother in the bathroom with me.

I want to be able to go to the bathroom by myself.

I think it heavily impacted me.

I remember being, I think it was sixth grade.

We had the counselor come in, I think every other Friday, and they would do classes with the sixth grade.

And one day it was a writing prompt to write about what would happen if you went missing.

Who do you think would find you first or who would be the most worried?

And in my head, since there was so much going on at home with being physically independent and then my siblings and everything that they were doing, I wrote in my journal, I don't think anyone would be nervous or anybody would be worried.

And then I remember my counselor, I think he saw it.

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