The ones, who are seemly challenged, need to be heard, they need to be seen not as having a disability or handicap, but as a persons who has and will continue to bloom, that they can climb to higher lengths reaching beyond the limitations, that they can show inner strength. To be seen not as broken body or mind, but as a soul that is an intact human being.
When you focus on someone's disability you'll overlook their abilities, beauty and uniqueness. Once you learn to accept and love them for who they are, you subconsciously learn to love yourself unconditionally.
That any disability should not define who you are.
Disability is a matter of perception.
This man has a lovely blend of humour, language and unique character ‘A beautiful Mind’
And I will say anyone who does not think differently and is not at least somewhat inspirationally moved after watching this has not looked long enough nor hard enough in the mirror.
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Nicholas James Vujicic (born 4 December 1982) is a preacher, a motivational speaker and the Director of Life Without Limbs. Born without limbs due to the rare Tetra-amelia disorder, Vujicic had to live a life of difficulties and hardships throughout his childhood even contemplated suicide at the age of 10.
However, he managed to get over these hardships and, at seventeen, started his own non-profit organization Life Without Limbs. After school, Vujicic attended college and graduated with a double major. From this point on, he began his travels as a motivational speaker and his life attracted more and more mass media coverage.
He has attitude and is in reality no different to me or you.
At the present, he regularly gives speeches on subjects such as disability, hope, and finding meaning in life.
Has since got married, something he always maintained, that he would find the 'the one' that she was out there, just waiting to be found and now.....Congratulations to Nick on having his first baby boy Kiyoshi Gwiyomi.......'Gwiyomi means cute person'.
I have worked with special needs children and at a day centre for disabled young adults and I am proficient in braille, sign and lip reading and most of those young children and adults who are capable of communication have plenty to say for themselves, they shine like little beacons, even those who have low range to profound learning difficulties can teach you to see life from a different perspective, if others applied the art of listening and patience, and just be still for a few moments until they can get the words or actions to articulate whatever it is they are trying to express, they would be surprised at the insight and inspiration that can shine through.
My own 15yr old son is Autistic, lower end of the spectrum Asperger's, communication was difficult in his very early years, because he had his own language, which continued until he was nearly 6yrs and beyond that he used it intermittedly. We as a family had to engage and learn his tones and clicks and almost seemly 'alien' words. He did learn to speak clearly and is very academic, but he still does use what he calls his 'alien' speak at times, But quite often he seems like an old soul and wise beyond his years, he just says the right things at the right times and his insight to life can be phenomenal, very humbling, his musings.
Oh indeed, dear Light Being...we are souls having a physical experience, and that may or may not entail disability......Either way, we are learning and evolving through the aethers.....It simply is......!!
When I was 21 years old, my brother of 18, died....He has spent a life of disability and was handicapped, due to being overdue and a difficult birth.....He never walked, but his soul shone through and still does....