Everything is truly how you see it – that’s what I keep learning 🙂
It’s 12 : 31 PM on day 1051 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to pray, brush my teeth, feed myself All Bran Flakes for breakfast, read Judges 10, publish my Disability of the Day feature,tweet and Facebook about my campaign – 11 days since the last donation (yes I keep count) and still no luck but people have promised to make donations and I believe they will keep their promises – chat to a mom whose son has Cerebral Palsy on Facebook – I am my happiest when I’m using my experiences to help parents of “special needs” kids doing that makes me feel like there’s a purpose for me having CP – practice sitting up straight to strengthen my core muscles, take off my dirty jacket and t-shirt and put a clean t-shirt on, stretch my hamstrings, get my hair washed (thank you sisi Nikiwe for washing my hair for me) and spend some time outside.
Yesterday I stumbled across Sue Austin: Deep sea diving … in a wheelchair – a ted talk by Sue Austin who made it her mission in life to change the way people see “disabilities” and “disabled” people – I was blown away Sue turned a wheelchair which people usually associate with limitation and restriction into an aspirational object. Watch Sue Austin: Deep sea diving … in a wheelchair below:
This is an incredibly intelligent, thoughtful and inspiring talk. I love it. I know that many physically disabled individuals feel like they are “drowning”, “underwater” – as if everything is moving too slowly, and a heavy load is suffocating them. And here she shows that being underwater can be liberating. It’s incredible.
it is incredible it’s interesting that you and I love the same thing about this talk Sue turned an object that people associate with restriction into an object that people associate with freedom and that to me is amazing