When I have aides who are new to me, they are generally surprised by how much I eat. I'm not a big guy, so maybe that fools them, but I've always eaten well. I imagine my appetite is connected to my cerebral palsy. The CP makes me work harder than most people to do even simple things, work requires energy, and energy requires food. I assume these aides are used to dealing with people far less active than I am, who therefore eat less.
New aides also tend to ask me if I'm tired-- which itself is tiresome. They seem to want to put me to bed about seven in the evening. Again, I don't know who these people usually work for, but I'm awake every night well past midnight. I read in bed, and the reading does not involve comic books. Maybe I look tired all the time, who knows, but in fact I have things to see, work to do, and a life to live.
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