My Challenged Friend :: Friendship Essay

Learning from My mentally Challenged Friend   From the time I was two years old until I was to the highest degree seven Steve had been my best friend. He and I went over to severally others houses all the time. At that age I was very friendly and loving to everyone but very over- exploitive. I have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity rowdiness (ADHD) so I was boisterous and restless. Everything was great until second grade when Steves parents began to detest my behavior because I was so hyper. Thats when they wouldnt let Steve be my friend any longer and eventually he was forced to cut off contact with me.   This stony-broke my heart and I would have been able to get over it without similarly many scars if the rest of the kids had standardisedd me. But they didnt. No one would swordplay with me at recess and no one would ever come to my house. I began to get very depressed. My teachers were not aware of ADHD and were extremely slender of me and insensitive to my disab ility.   It was then I was approached to help Freddie, who is mentally challenged, prepare for the coming(prenominal) Challenger Little League. In the league disabled children play, and normal kids act as their buddies to help move the game along. Freddies mom and mine vista it would be a good idea because I would be portion Freddie get ready for the league, and doing something for Freddie might make me feel better about myself.   Since then we have been playing ball each fall and forswear at his house once a week. In that time I have grown to know him as a person, his likes and dislikes. He has a strong personality that contradicts the image I had of kids with mental disabilities. I had imagined that they were basically passive showing only faint recognition and response to anything occurrent in the world around them. And while this may be received for some severe disabilities, Freddie interacts with his environment righteous like I do. We just have different obs tacles to face, different disabilities to overcome.   While Freddie and I threw the ball around in the backyard, I developed a genuine friendship with him like I would have with any other kid I knew. That is wherefore I enjoyed going over to his house.