my name is Jennifer Eileen Whalen, I am 25 years old and live in the great Ocean State. Allow me to intrduce myself, I am a young writer with Cerebral Palsy and Tourette Syndrome. It's difficult to do the things others do so easily, but what I lack in physical abilities, I more then make up in my writing. Before my mother died, I was not really into writing; I mean I did some poetry, but after she died, I imersed myself in the art of writing. It allowed me to create a whole other world, and friends. I was safe from the depression that engulft my heart when ever I wrote.