Losing Who You Were, Finding Who You Are | Sophia Barrios Barba | TEDxCCHS Youth

I want you to imagine an 11-year-old girl's room. The door is slightly a jar and from the hallway you can see her bed lined with lovingly placed stuffed animals and her white desk covered with halfish drawings and piles of books. The afternoon sunlight spills across the oak floor and there she is sitting on her bed staring at a piece of paper in her hands.That girl, me and the paper, my X-ray, my spine curved into the unmistakable shape of an S. Coming home from the doctor's office that day, I was shocked, ...