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Zachary Fenell

Zachary Fenell, aka the "Cerebral Palsy Vigilante," is a Cleveland-based author, blogger, and disability advocate whose cerebral palsy memoirs include Off Balanced and Slow and Cerebral.

Oct 5, 2026

4:30
Which at first you were probably like, "I really don't wanna see myself." But then after a while, was it like you just started to become more comfortable with what you saw?
4:38
Yes.
4:39
And that is actually, it kinda gets...
4:41
I mean, I was, when I was thinking about our conversation we're gonna have today, it kinda gets to another point, uh, that I wanted to bring up, which is that, you know, confidence in that ag- that when you love your body, you're being confident.
4:58
Um, confidence is built off of consistency.
5:01
So seeing that reflection on a daily basis at work, that's right.
5:06
I didn't, like, put two and two together until you just did that.

11 MINS LATER

15:55
Like I could probably do something similar if I really leaned into it." Like I think we have a huge opportunity once we're comfortable with who we are to, to really go out and do whatever we want.

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