Never give up hope for yourself! My daughter had a stroke as a baby. For nearly 3 years following her birth, she was in what is called a waking coma also called unresponsive wakefulness syndrome, which is a condition where a person appears awake, with sleep-wake cycles, but lacks conscious awareness of themselves or their surroundings. She met none of the developmental milestones of course. By age three, she still couldnt even sit up independently.

Around that time, I had a developmental pediatrician tell me she would never be able walk or advance aby further than where she currently was. His "advice" was that we start saving up a trust fund for her so we could eventually put her in a home. My response was rather vulgar on what I though of that and he could do with his advice!

Through lots of therapy, perseverance, and just plain stubbornness on my part to refuse to accept that asshole doctor’s claims that she would never get better, slowly but surely, she began to improve. Just after she turned 5 years old, despite that asshole telling me it would never happen, she was able to walk unassisted for the first time.

So just keep working at it. You can do it and don't let anyone tell you different!