I skied where even my ski had a built up platform on it. I was active in sports during my youth. I went to camps. I learned piano where now I have my grade 9 and grade 3 theory. I was always on the go partly because I think my mother and father never wanted me to see that there was anything wrong.
Disability is such a degrading term and can harm one's attitude.
I never grew up thinking I had a disability and to this day I still don't. My operations were hard to go through. There were many complications along the way. Mind you, when my knee was bending, it wasn't my knee and what actually was happening was my femur was bending at the point where the new growth had occurred. My x-ray shows that my femur bent 50 degrees.