Cheerleading Sucks Essay

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Dumb Cheerleaders One may say, “She’s not smart she’s a cheerleader.” Ninety nine percent of the time, I agree with that stereotype. Spending ten years of life doing something you hate gets old fast, almost as fast as when Mary Poppins says “Supercalafragalisticexpaladocious,” thankfully it ended this year. Some may call it a sport while others call it a joke, I always took it as a joke and believe it’s a joke. There was a reason to why I was forced to do it, my parental figures, mostly just my mom. I was very talented though, which made it even worse. Being the best on my team, people told me I could do flips better then they could walk in a straight line. There are a couple main reasons as to why I have a negative outlook on the activity/sport of cheerleading, the reasons being having arthritis starting at the age of 14 from landing on my knees thinking it was my feet. Also, breaking a vertebrae in your neck at the age of 15 and wearing a neck brace for months is the other reason. On September 11, 2006 I broke my neck cheerleading, my less then coordinated flyer fell on top of me crushing my head into cement to rupture one of my vertebrae’s. When I woke up in the hospital, I was left in a hallway for over three hours after my cat scans and x-rays at Strong Memorial Hospital. For some reason they had forgotten that I was in the hallway, once I returned back to my room which I shared with a drunk girl who was receiving fluids. She would not stop screaming and embarrassing herself, but I was embarrassed I broke my neck because some girl fell on me. Then they put me in my own private room, which I wasn’t even allowed to move and the TV was too low to even see because I was strapped down to the bed. I spent about a week there and then slowly returned to school. I was the freshman girl, as if I didn’t already stick out enough being on Varsity sporting a
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