This is Jason, good day to you all.  I will be myself, this is who I am.  Being born with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is not all who I am.  This wheelchair I sit in is not all who I am.  Yet, these two things are a part of my character.  Honesty, patience, quietness, thoughtful, good wits are some of my virtues.  I have a creative bug inside of me to write"to write poetry, to write fiction, and to share about real life.  Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy … was I given a bad deck of cards, many of them smiling jokers??  I am pondering this… of course I wish to walk around like everyone else… to live past 60.  Mostly I like who I am.  I like who God created. As they say “the grass is always greener on the other side.”  My character would be totally different without Duchenne.  Being positive is the name of the game.  Since I don’t have control over how I was born, I may as well not dwell but pursue a good quality of life.