Katy Fetters is a seventeen year-old girl who has hemiplegic cerebral palsy. She lives in Orange County, California and attends Huntington Beach High School as an upcoming junior. Katy is very focused on academics at school, as she maintains a 3.9 GPA and plans to go to a four year university for English and creative writing after graduating. She is active in soccer and weight trains weekly. Growing up with CP has been a challenge, but Katy has learned to adapt to her disability. She never lets it stop her from doing anything her brothers, sisters, and peers are able to do. She takes everything step by step until she is able to excel. She learned how to ride a bike at seven years old, ran cross-country in middle school, and became “Student of the Year” in her last year of middle school. One of her greatest achievements was climbing to the top of Yosemite Falls in 2007. Katy has a twin sister who doesn’t have CP, so she tries to live her daily life as a normal teenage girl. She spends her free time with friends, loves to write poetry, and strives to lead a healthy lifestyle as a teenager with cerebral palsy. But most of all, Katy hopes to never let her disability get in the way of living her life strongly, happily, and spontaneously.

Katy has recently started a blog for teens with disabilities. Her goal for teencerebralpalsy.com is to become a place where teens can talk about any problems they face because of his or her disability. Katy knows what it is like being a little different from everyone, and so she created this website so that she can talk with others like her about daily life as a teen with CP. She hopes that other teens with CP can come to her website, and use it as an emotional outlet. These teens can talk about anything with each other, social, physical, or emotional problems, or maybe they just need some words of encouragement to achieve a goal! This website is designed so that these kids will always have a place to come to, and they will always have someone like them out there to talk to!