My Challenged Friend :: Friendship Essay

Learning from My Mentally Challenged Friend   From the time I was two geezerhood old until I was about seven Steve had been my best friend. He and I went over to individually others houses all the time. At that age I was rattling friendly and loving to ever soyone but very over-active. I have direction Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ( minimal brain dysfunction) so I was boisterous and restless. Everything was great until act grade when Steves parents began to dis want my behavior because I was so hyper. Thats when they wouldnt let Steve be my friend anymore and eventually he was forced to cut by contact with me.   This broke my heart and I would have been able to turn over it without too many scars if the rest of the babys had liked me. But they didnt. No one would play 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 critical of me and insensitive to my disability.   It was then I was approached to help Freddie, who is rationally challenged, prepare for the upcoming Challenger Little League. In the league disabled children play, and normal kids act as their buddies to help move the game along. Freddies mum and mine thought it would be a good idea because I would be helping Freddie get ready for the league, and doing something for Freddie might make me obtain better about myself.   Since then we have been playing ball each fall and spring 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 essentially passive showing only faint experience and response to anything happening in the world around them. And while this whitethorn be true for some severe disabilities, Freddie interacts with his environment just like I do. We just have different obstacles to face, differen t disabilities to overcome.   While Freddie and I threw the ball around in the backyard, I developed a old(prenominal) friendship with him like I would have with any other kid I knew. That is why I enjoyed going over to his house.