Featured User of the Month – Miraca Ereshi
Choosing a Featured User of the month is getting harder and harder. Again, we had some great nominations so thank you to everyone who took the time to nominate someone.
Our winner this month was nominated more than once. Congrats Miraca Ereshi!
Miraca has only been around since April 2012, but already her presence has been felt. Let’s meet Miraca who is a Top Contributor in Special Education.
Savannah, Georgia
“My name is Miraca Ereshi and I am from Savannah, Georgia. Back when I lived in Savannah, I used to visit a park called “Forsythe Park Fountain” where I would make wishes about my grandmother becoming healthier during her significant battle with cancer. I would throw pennies in the wishing well.”
Wishing well at Forsythe Park Fountain: Courtesy of Miraca
Dyscalculia
“I have dyscalculia (a math learning disability). I had a significant academic delay in mathematics. I was accused of being lazy and not dependent enough to accept the help I was getting, which wasn’t true. I was getting straight U’s in mathematics all my life until my parents finally decided to seek help for my math differences.”
“I got evaluated and was diagnosed with Dyscalculia. Dyscalculia is very similar to “math dyslexia” except they visualize numbers a little different and more significant than dyslexia. So then a special education teacher accommodated me for two straight years in Algebra and Geometry. I couldn’t even tell time until the end of 10th grade.”
“My parents made me count everything. I had to count how much cereal (which sounds silly but helped a lot), count buttons on my cable remote, and I had to calculate prices when going to the store. At the end of 10th grade, I improved. My counting skills have gotten better, but I still have Dyscalculia and continue to battle with it.”
Miraca's inspiration...Albert Einstein
Autism
“I am now in college majoring in special education and psychology. I have a high functioning autistic cousin, which is how I gained interest in the special education field. I also volunteered in a deaf and hard of hearing classroom at the ages of 15-16, where they also taught me plenty of sign language. I have worked with autistic children at Wisconsin Easter Seals for a summer.”
“Autism is such a broad spectrum, where it covers people from the non-verbal level to high functioning. A person could be severely disabled or very high functioning. They have such unique abilities. Many people with Autism might find it hard to make small talk, but that’s a blessing and a curse. The blessing is the way they give detailed information about their obsessive topics is so unique. They could focus on something for more than two hours without being distracted. Us neurotypicals can’t even do that. That’s why sometimes I wish that I had the obsessive qualities of people with autism.”
“People with autism have neurological differences, were there’s differences in social development. That’s a curse, but can be a gift. I teach individuals on Yahoo Answers! about their disabilities and how to cope with it. I tell them to make the best out of it. It’s not easy, but everyone has their differences in life. You just have to accept the help your receiving and try to gain the appropriate coping skills. I just love topics about autism. I could go on and on about autism.”
Yahoo! Answers and Miraca
“Yahoo! Answers has taught me to take criticism wherever I go. There are times were users would thumb my answers down and I would get upset. I have learned that there will always be disagreements. That’s one advantage of being on Yahoo! Answers. There would be some users who would email me rude messages because they hated the answer I gave. I have learned not to comment on other users questions if they can’t take constructive criticism.”
“I love everyone on Yahoo Answers. And it has been a great experience so far. I want to thank everyone for the support in reaching out to the community.”
“I hope to become a teacher or a psychiatrist for special needs individuals. I am a huge advocate for special education.”
Thanks for reading my story!
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Wow and she’s only 18? She must some kind of heart to be such a strong avocate. Special education is such a demanding field were very little people have the heart to take on a role like that. CONGRADULATIONS MIRACA! I really enjoyed your story.
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Finally the featured user is here! Miraca seems like a nice person. I have aspergers syndrome ( a mild form of autism), and I find it so precious that she think we’re so unique. It’s like she can feel our difficulties. CONGRADULATIONS!
Nice story, loved it.
cute
So nice to meet you! I’m always glad to see someone who recognizes how important special education really is… and how fascinating!
Nice to meet you
shes truly an inspiration..
congratulations for winning you deserve it and continue your good job
Love yahoo answers what a great place to learn my family and me love yahoo answers i love it
what a nice article.. Miraca you inspire me to be a better person!
I admire you for what you are doing and it takes a strong person to come out and tell there story so bravo!
thank you for your efforts it means a lot
Thank you for all you’re doing to help the special needs community! As the parent of a young adult son with autism, I applaud all of your efforts. I also think it’s wonderful what your parents did to help you through your learning challenges. Thanks for writing this piece and helpling others to understand special needs a little better.
Thanks for your story Miraca. I love your name it is so gorgeous. I wish I had a name like that.
My sister has her masters in special education and has been teaching severely behaved elementary children for over 25 years now. My uncle just retired from teaching high school special education- Math,
I have an ABI from drowning when I was six, I was under the water for eight min. I can learn math but cannot retain very much,.
I bet you are a really neat person. It’s great that you want to help autistic kids. They are truly God’s special people.
Hello Miraca Ereshi
I am Aws and I like the way you want to be a teacher for special needs. I love your passion and the way you gained it. I envy people like you -but in a good way- and make them my example. I wish you good luck in life and hop that people would appreciate your efforts more in yahoo answers or in real life.
Well done, Miraca. Thanks for sharing your story : )
Nice article. I have aspergers syndrome (a mild form of autism) and so does my father. Wow I am inspired. Good job Miraca!
congrats on being featured here
Nice article!
Hi Miraca.
Nice to”meet” you!
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keep it up!
Just wanted to come and say congratulations on becoming user of the month! Great job
bravo. keep up the fantastic work
wow she must have a hard time but still goes on and tries hard your awesome!!!!!!!
I really enjoyed reading your accomplishments! Its rare to see such zeal and determination among our young ones today, you are to be commended! I believe that one day very soon the problems that you and all of mankind face will be done away with, no man will ever say they are sick or have an element that they have to deal with. Rev 21:4. Thanks for sharing your story!
thank goodness for people like you, you are a true inspiration to keep on fighting and doing good and being good no matter what. A true joy to read your story! Thank you!
Awesome Miraca, Wish you all the best for your bright
future.
CONGRATULATIONS on your (multiple) nominations!!
You are an ispiration to everyone!!
Good luck with that degree!!
Miraca Ereshi Congrats man for getting feature user of the month. http://seocel.blogspot.com .Enjoy
I have taught special education for over 30 years now, and I am pleased to see such a young little fellow to have the heart to take on such a demanding position like special education. CONGRATS MIRACA!
I saw the first 20 of your answers and they were great! I even commented on a few of them.
Hi everyone,
I know that it’s been two months now, but I was impressed with all the great comments I received on my article. Thank you guys so much!
Things has been really rough for me ever since I became featured, BUT you guys are the reason why I am still here. Thanks and I am STRONGLY looking forward to the next nomination of a featured user.
God bless!