Kennedy Bingham

So there's things, but like it does so well for like what I was told I would get.

And so I'm super grateful.

But yeah, it was like mentally, really.

I think that's when I started struggling the hardest mentally, just because then you also get put back in the environment of people that you used to know and like went to high school with and are friends with.

And they like start coming to see you and they look at you different and they're like,

have just pity in their eyes for you, which I get.

Like I totally, not upset about it, but it's hard to be like looked at that way and look so differently.

And even to this day, like, we were in D.C.

for a few days.

And, like, I can walk.

And I can walk for a while.

But, like, I get tired.

Like, I can't do it for very long.

My back starts hurting.

My leg, like, will start swelling up and stuff.

And so, like, we brought my wheelchair to, like, get in and out throughout the day.

And there's, like, eighth graders everywhere.

And for some reason, like, it's been five years.

And when I'm around people my age to, like, that age, like, middle school age, they just don't understand or they don't know, like –

They don't view you like normal.