The purpose of my blog is to aware people of the challenges many young people face today from a medical aspect. I plan to inform my audience about diseases/disorders that affect young people around their age and motivate them to support at least one of the causes in my blog. I hope to help change my audience’s view on people with debilitating diseases and give them some insight to what their disease is, how it affects their life and ways they can help. I want to encourage others to stand up for change. I want this blog to cause people to stop and think before voicing an opinion on someone with Downs Syndrome or AIDS. I do not want my audience’s opinion on people who have a medical condition to come from the media or from what they hear from peers. I want my audience to have the motivation to stand up for people who cannot stand up for themselves.
I want my audience to be young adults interested in changing views on medical afflictions that affect people their age; high school to college age students. The reason for me wanting to communicate this to others sparks from my experiences in high school. I have been a part of many causes that changed my view on disorders and diseases, for instance, Spread the Word to End the Word to prevent people from using retarded in a derogatory manner, special kids rodeo, The American Red Cross, and St. Jude as well as others. I also grew up with a girl in my class who suffered from Muscle Dystrophy. Growing up with her I never really felt like she was any different than me other than her life was much harder and everyone in my class respected her compared other classes. One of the major factors for my interest in this blog is that on May 14th my cousin was born with Downs Syndrome. She is beautiful and everyone in my family is very supportive, but I do not want her to grow up in a world that looks down on her and gives her a label she cannot lose. If I can change one person’s mind on at least one of the diseases/ disorders I talk about in my blog I will feel accomplished.
