Discord wouldn’t let me post this in the chat, but I have lots of gratitude, very little shame at this point, and I’m stubborn, so I decided to post it here and send a link.
“I wanted to take a minute to write this in the gratitude section because I am so overwhelmed with gratitude right now.
I’d like to talk about why I’m here.
6 years ago I got sick and lost my house, all of my belongings, my career, most of my friends, and so much more.
5 years ago I got even more sick and lost the ability to walk and use my arms and hands among other things.
Just over 2 years ago I had a 13+ hour brain surgery that could have easily killed me, but only took my voice.
I remember getting wheeled into the MRI room sobbing because it had been weeks and I still couldn’t even swallow food or water.
I was terrified I’d never be productive again
But I had my shitty years old android and I started finding ways to use AI to help me to function again in some ways.
This year Im still very much recovering, still can’t talk or use my hands, when I’m typing in the chat it’s one finger at a time.
This year I had an idea, and in January I started to find ways to do it. In February I bought a domain.
This month a built a website about my projects.
This week I was accepted into the AWS Activate startup accelerator, Notion for Startups, and Confluent for startups, meaning my pre-seed startup has up to $30k in support.
I’m here because I’m mostly self taught and need to learn the right terms for things and so much more to keep scaling.
I can’t wait for today.
And tomorrow.
Thank you.