Her essay is organized so that the audience can understand her life: the positives and the negatives. He allows his audience to see both sides of his life, both the harsh realities he has to suffer and his average daily life. According to Nancy, multiple sclerosis “…has opened and enriched my life enormously. This feeling that my fragility and my need must be reflected in others, that in the search and formation of a stable nucleus in a life torn by change and loss, change and loss, I must recognize the same process, in individual conditions, in the lives around me. Me. I do not deprecate such knowledge” (Mairs, 37). Mair's great statement is that she has accepted herself and her condition for what it is, yet she refuses to allow her condition to define her. Through her particular diction, tone, satire, and rhetorical elements, Mairs paints a picture of her life and shows how being crippled did not stop her from living her life. He is not ashamed or ashamed of who he is and accepts his condition, making the most of it and taking the title with him.