When my boyfriend suggested signing us up for a dance lesson at the local dance studio, I felt hesitant. Aside from just under two years of ballet lessons as a child, I’ve never danced — and for good reason.
I’m not a good dancer, and I worried my disability could easily prevent me from being able to learn the steps at all. I told him that dancing sounded awesome and that I was excited to try it out — but I felt full of anxiety.
Despite my boyfriend’s insistence that he’s a “bad dancer” and his life philosophy that trying new things is usually either a whole lot of fun or a funny story, I was reluctant to believe that taking a dance lesson together would end up OK.
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