I often daydream about the kind of person I’d be if I didn’t have SMA. It’s not so much…
Articles by Alyssa Silva
“You just have to get through one more procedure,” I told myself as I pierced my tongue with my teeth…
Crying the moment I saw Taylor Swift on stage wasn’t something I expected to happen. But it wasn’t completely unexpected,…
Although I’m finding it hard to believe, this month marks 10 years since I graduated college. It feels like…
“Why is she in a wheelchair?” is one of the most common phrases I hear when I’m out and about.
When I was a little girl, I had many life-threatening hospitalizations, the first at 16 months of age. Ten months…
Whenever I think about how I started driving my wheelchair at 3 years old, I always wonder, “Whose great idea…
Some of life’s best lessons come from the beach. Don’t you agree? Maybe it’s because I’m a solar-powered soul, but…
While living with SMA, I’ve been on the receiving end of many people’s misconceptions about the disease. To an…
There’s an old adage that says March comes in like a lion, but where I’m from, it comes in more…