What happens when the world keeps making assumptions about who you are before it ever takes the time to know you?

In this episode of The Story of Us, Jeff Ellison sits down with author, podcaster, athlete, advocate, and motivational speaker Win Charles for a candid, funny, and deeply human conversation about cerebral palsy, resilience, grief, mental health, independence, and refusing to let other people decide what is possible.

Win was born with cerebral palsy. From an early age, she learned that disability was only one part of her story, even when other people insisted on seeing it first.

But this conversation is not really about disability. It is about assumptions.

Win shares story after story of people speaking to caregivers instead of her, questioning whether she cou ...