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My name is Marty Fielding and I guess you could say that I am “one in a million.” ____ other words, there are not many people like me. You see, I have a muscle disease ____makes me very weak, so I can’t run or climb stairs as quickly as other people. ____addition, sometimes I am very clumsy and drop things or bump into furniture. Unfortunately, the doctors don’t know how to make me _____(good), but I am very outgoing and have learned to adapt to my _______able. My motto is: live one day at a time.

______I was ten years old I was the same as everyone ____. I used to climb trees, swim and play football. In fact, I used to dream about playing professional football and possibly

________(represent) my country in the World Cup. Then I started to get weaker and weaker, until I could only enjoy football from a bench at the stadium. In the end I went into hospital for medical tests. I stayed there for nearly three months. I think I had at least a billion tests, including ____in which they cut out a piece of muscle from my leg and looked at it under a microscope. Even ____all that, no one could give my disease a name and it is difficult to know _____the future holds.

One problem is ____I don’t look ____different from other people. So sometimes some children in my primary school would laugh, when I got out of breath _____running a short way or had to stop and rest halfway up the stairs. Sometimes I was ____weak to go to school so my education suffered. Every time I returned after an absence, I felt stupid because I was _____the others.

My life is a lot _____(easy) at high school because my fellow students have accepted me.

____few who can not see the real person inside my body do not make me _______(annoy), and I just ignore them. All in all I have a good life. I am happy ___________(find) many things I can do, like writing and computer programming. My ambition is _______(work) for a firm that develops computer software when I grow up. Last year I invented a computer football game and a big company has decided to buy from me. I have a very busy life ____no time to sit around feeling sorry for myself. As well as going to movies and football matches with my friends, I spend a lot of time with my pets. I have two rabbits, a parrot, a tank ______(fill) of fish and a tortoise.

_______(look) after my pets properly takes a lot of time but I find ____worthwhile. I also have to do a lot of work, especially if I have been away for a while.

In many ways my disability has helped me grow stronger psychologically and become more independent. I have to work hard to live a normal life but it has been worth ____. If I had a chance to say one thing to healthy children, it would be this: having a disability ____not mean your life is not satisfying. So don’t feel sorry for ____disabled or make fun of them, and don’t ignore them ____. Just accept them ____who they are, and give them encouragement to live as rich and full ____life as you do.