When Melony Salla, a Special Olympics Indiana athlete, walks into a doctor’s office, she wants to be treated like what she is, the expert on her own body. But for much of her life, that wasn’t the case. Too often, doctors directed questions to her mom, even though Melony was the one experiencing the symptoms. “I live in this body, not my caregiver,” she said. “I want to have the voice in it.” That frustration turned into motivation when Melony joined Special Olympics Indiana’s A...
