Jasmine Bethea may have been born with a disability, one where she was told she would not even be able to learn, but that did not stop her from graduating this week. She has proven her doctors and everyone else wrong, not only graduating – but doing so with honors. Jasmine’s doctors had told her mother Lorraine to put her in an institution and go on with her life.
Jasmine was born with Cerebral Palsy. Her mother refused to just, ‘give up,’ on her daughter, and with her mother’s love Jasmine flourished. Jasmine is unable to speak, but she sure can learn. She uses a power chair to get around, and has mastered the use of a computer through a keyboard that has a device enabling her to tap the keys. She completed the twelfth grade.