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: