I first have to remark that the issue I take with this is, nothing against you personally as this is only referring to the text itself, but the notion people who have "different skin color" or a "different sexual orientation" or "economic status" are somehow disadvantaged. Again, as I have stated before, I do not conscribe to the theory of privilege. I do not equate someone's lack of legs, either born or incurred later, to be something that cannot be overcome or even used to their advantage.

To share a brief story, for the sake of more insight, I came from a background of "haves" and fell hard into the "have nots". There was a point in my life where I had [i]nothing[/i] to my name; all the wealth I had been given I gave back to my family so they could buy food and pay rent. It cost me my future education at one of the most critical times of a young person's life and in the depths of an economic recession all while it saddled me with debt I could not reasonably pay. No less, I had been obese for the entirety of my existence and am affected by a few unrelated non-preventable chronic conditions. I spent an entire year and a half turning it all around, then another six (to this day), and doing all the things people told me I would [i]never[/i] be capable of. None of the above statements are true to me or my family anymore, barring those non-preventable conditions which I still live with.

You are whoever you make yourself to be with whatever hand you are dealt.

I never once asked for or received a handout from anyone or from the government. It is not their job to do it and I believe that because I lived it.