First, attention deficit disorder, aka ADD. With ADD, it is hard to pay attention in school. I go to a special class called resource. The teachers help you with the work. They teach you easy ways to solve the problem.

Now, on to Tourette's Syndrome. Tourette's Syndrome isn't as bad as it sounds. It makes you feel like you have to do something for no reason, like making a weird noise or holding your breath for five seconds...that kind of stuff.

Third, asthma. Asthma is pretty common with my friends. With asthma, it can be hard to breathe. I've had an asthma attack before. That's where you can hardly breathe, and if you don't fight it before it gets bad you can die from the asthma attack. It doesn't bug me any more because it hardly acts up. Sometimes it will act up a bunch.

Last, dysgraphia. Dysgraphia is having trouble writing things. When I write, it is messy. My teachers are used to it so they know how to read it. I'm learning to overcome my dysgraphia by learning how to type instead of writing messy.

Sometimes I feel weird just thinking about the diseases I have. But there are some good things about the diseases, like I get more attention than most kids at school, by special teachers. I can still do the things a kid without a disease can do. I can play basketball. I can climb ladders. I can can jump to the fourth bar with one hand, and all my friends call me Daddy Fast Arms because I beat anyone who races me on the monkeybars. See, I can still do anything a kid without a disease can do. No one has ever teased me about having these diseases.

So all of this just goes to show you that having diseases isn't all that bad. Sometimes it can be pretty good, too. You get a lot of attention. Sometimes you even learn the stuff before your other classmates. So diseases are cool in a bizarre, twisted way.

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