Special Reasons For picking my major

I am going to write my research paper on special education because that is my major and it interests me. I decided I wanted to become a special education teacher when I was in sixth grade for two reasons: my mom is a special education teacher and I have seizures so I can in a way relate to people with special needs. I knew since I was a little girl that I wanted to be a teacher because I like to teach people new things, I just never knew what type of teacher I wanted to be. I didn’t actually decide that I wanted to teach children with special needs until I started having seizures in the sixth grade. I decided that I would teach special education when I realized that children with special needs were treated differently by teachers and students and that they also needed someone that would be a good advocate for them. To teach students with special education takes a lot of work because you need to be caring, understanding, tough, and helpful. When you help a special needs student you can tell when you have made an impact on there lives because there faces light up. I think students with special needs appreciate things more than people without a disability but yet they get a worse education because they need more equipment and need to be taught slower in order to understand things. This is why I have chosen to teach special education and write a research paper on this topic as well.