003. Space travel
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After his accident, Artie wanted to be an astronaut for a really long time. He thought that out in the space, without gravitation to keep him on the ground, in his chair, he could be normal again. That he wouldn't have disabilities anymore.
Then when he was in seventh grade, an astronaut visited his school. On the very day of his visit, Artie was so excited, that he kept rolling in slalom on the corridors, and could hardly say a proper sentence in English.
The lesson went amazingly; the astronaut was very sympathetic, spoke about space travel with great enthusiasm, and even joked about it a tiny bit. Artie couldn't wait to talk to him in private about his plans. But when he managed to do so, the astronaut wasn't so nice anymore. He looked at him, down from his wheels up to the top of his head, and outwardly laughed at him.
Artie never fantasized about space travel again.
A/N: My mother is disabled, too, and she has been since she was a toddler. When I was smaller, she used to tell me that when she was little, she dreamed about having a horse that would take her to everywhere
