Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman

Imagine if you will being trapped inside your own body. Imagine being able to everything you hear, but not being able to communicate back. Imagine life as a baby forever. Imagine being spoon fed at fourteen years old and slobbering most of it back out like a baby. Imagine having to wear diapers at age fourteen. Imagine being confined to a wheelchair every day all day, not able to control one part of your body not matter how hard you try. So it is for Shawn McDaniel. Shawn suffers severely from cerebal palsy and can’t control himself or communicate with others. The doctors and psychologists test him every year and even though he knows the answers to most of the questions, he can’t tell them that! So he fails, year after year after year. He is retarded and no one thinks he knows or understands anything. His father can’t bear to watch him suffer and contemplates ending his misery. The author of this book has a son with cerebral palsy, but the story is fiction. It is an amazing read and one that puts things into perspective.