About Me

Hello Interweb Friends! I am April, but here on the internet everyone knows me as Short.  I love gaming, Disney, and I'm disabled.  I have been disabled my whole life. I have Spinal Muscular Atrophy.

I live in small town Tennessee but if I could live anywhere I think I would choose Florida.  Did I mention I love Disney world?  It’s a very freeing experience just being there.  I love to blog.  I blame the movie “Julie and Julia” for starting my blogging interest.  There’s just something about people across the Internet sharing stories, tips, etc.  that I think is pretty special.  

The story of this blog is pretty simple.  As I said, I love gaming!  I started when I was little, we back in the day, and has continued throughout all my life.  The more my disability progressed, the more I chose to stay home and play games.  I joined World of Warcraft in 2007.  I was amazed at how massive of the world it was and how deep the social bonds you make there are.  World of Warcraft is also to thank for why everyone knows me as Short.

I’ve found so much freedom in the game that, thanks to the encouragement of friends, in 2013 I started a Youtube channel and a web site called ability powered.  Throughout my years of playing world of warcraft I had learned lots of little tips and tricks to make the game easier for gamers like me to only use a mouse to play.  I needed an outlet to share all these tips on and ability powered born.  Since then I have helped lots of gamers not only in warcraft but in a variety of other names as well.  All my work culminated in November of 2013 when I was in the world of warcraft documentary.

After a vacation in 2014, actually on the long drive home from vacation, I couldn’t stop thinking about all these different tips that I had for other disabled people that had nothing to do with gaming.  I thought of different topics I would like to talk about that did have to do with disabilities but I was not comfortable putting them on my website that I have worked to build up in the gaming community.  So after much debate I started this blog.

So what we do find here you may ask?  Here you will find a blog about life and all that goes with it.  It may be a Disney planning pkst.  It may be an opinion about an advocacy topic.  It may be a life hack that I have found to make things easier with my disability.  It may be a review about a product or accessibility at certain locations I traveled to.  It may be a recipe or food item I have found that is easy to swallow since I have issues swallowing some foods.  It may be simply lay useless to the majority of the people who stumbled on this page, but if there’s anything…  Even one thing that I can share that makes life easier for in the one else then it is worth the time it takes to type it up.

So I hope you find something of use here or are even entertained for second or two.  Either way welcome to my life: disabled.