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Never Give Up!

Gatlin McPherson
1 min readAug 22, 2022

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When I was younger, I have better health care because I had 100 hours so I can have caregivers come to my mother’s house the caregivers took me to college where I earned my associate degree in web technologies from Pellissippi State Community College. I worked at East Tennessee Public Broadcasting Service as a freelance graphic designer. In 2013, I lost my 100 hours with caregivers I only had 60 hours and I started to get the worthless people as caregivers.

Disability Resource Center sent this girl to my mother’s house to be my caregiver but didn’t have a driver’s license so she couldn’t drive me anywhere. This made me very angry with the Disability Resource Center because they know I wanted to earn my bachelor’s degree, so I need somebody to drive me to class. The caregivers didn’t want to take me to class because they did not want to walk the University of Tennessee’s hilly campus. The caregivers used to complain about not getting paid enough to take me to school. I have some caregivers who didn’t care to take me to school. I had this one girl who actually asked why I have to stay in class because I don’t get a degree. I still managed to earn my bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Tennessee.

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Gatlin McPherson
Gatlin McPherson

Written by Gatlin McPherson

Content Writer and Social Media Guru

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