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We now like in an age of compensation culture, were everyone will try and sue, and make a fast buck. At my birth in 1943 my skull was cracked by the forceps delivery, resulting in me having to live with cerebral palsy - resulting in disability affecting my walking, shaking hand movements and (sometimes) my speech.

There was no compensation culture them, and I never received a penny. I  attended a school for spastics, while having to attend hospitals and clinics for physiotherapy and speech-therapy for eleven years which disrupted my education. I attended classes and did an engineering course at the National Spastic Centre, where I was head-boy and worked very hard for over forty years, before ill-health early retirement.

I am on the committee of management and sub-committees of the local housing association, and chairman of two local community companies. I have also written a trilogy of manuscripts: SHAKING - HEAD-BOY - STILL SHAKING, a series of five stories THE ENCHANTED NURSERY for young children and four plays/screenplays. It is difficulty to get published now, unless you are a celebrity, but the public may get tired of the same old scenarios and read about real people.

            
   Jim Higgins