I rather call it mentally challenged Bianca Jacobo

You know i always hear people say "ohh he is mentally retarded" or "he's retarded"! Well in my opinion i think we shouldnt disrespect them like that, i think we should say mentally challenged. I know it might not be better or nicer but at least it wont hurt their feelings as much. So I was given an assignment of doing something good for somebody else. To ne honest at first I didn’t know what to do or what to write about. Then something special happened and I have to say it changed me in some ways.

As you should know i am a very loving and caring person. I am telling you this because i had the privilege to meet a lovely 23 year-old. She is a women but she is mentally challenged.

Ok so it was a Saturday morning and I was working at my mother in laws restaurant, I was the waitress. As always I was just there talking an not doing my work, then I noticed a girl came in looking all ratchet and messy. The first thing I thought was “she’s a tweaker”. She kept on talking to the other customers about stuff they didn’t even care about. She was talking about how her grandma this and how her mom that but customers were getting mad and stuff. Then I went up to the table she was sitting at and said “what would you like to drink”? She said “Hi Breana I would like diet coke” but she said it in a really annoying voice and she kept stuttering. I then told her “Its Bianca”. When I came back with her food, that was when I realized something was different about her. She was mentally challenged that’s why she was acting like a little kid. When I realized that I felt awful for ever thinking that way about a person without knowing them. When she was going to pay her total came up to be $14.95 and she said I only have $13 and she was so nervous and scared. She even said “are you mad at me” and I said “no”. what I did instead was pay the remaining amount and she started crying and telling me thankyou. I felt so good that I had actually done something nice for someone.

One quote I can really relate to is “Don’t judge a book by its front cover”. I say that because somebody should never be jusged by the way they look. That’s one thing I learned. I also learned that helping somebody does not only help the person being helped but helps the other one. It helps them think about stuff another way and that’s what happened to me. Another thing I learned was that I don’t have to be payed back with a favor I do because somebody will help me when I need it.