Rejected From 6 Jobs, How I Started My Own Firm While Living With Cerebral Palsy
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Kolkata-based Sumit Agarwal began questioning his reality while sitting in the classroom among his peers. He’d often wonder why people avoided him, and why he couldn’t engage in sports such as basketball like others did.
Sumit’s parents had already made him aware that he was born with Cerebral Palsy (CP), a neurological condition that results in poor motor skills, stiff or weak muscles, and tremors, which can make simple movements painful and small tasks time-consuming.
And yet, here he was, battling with himself and desperate to find answers.
As Sumit grew up, he began understanding his disability better, and eventually stopped worrying about it altogether. According to him, he lacked nothing and had all the skills to pursue his dreams. He thought people were incorrect when they said he was “handicapped”.
As a fully grown adult in his twenties, he learnt to differentiate between ignorant and arrogant people. So if the 29-year-old does not find disability parking in a mall, he doesn’t shout at the guard, for he knows it’s the system that needs to be changed. But he does not shy away from reprimanding people who look down on his disability.
