Overcoming Disability Perceptions

Don't let other people's mindsets and the

belief of your disability hold you back.

Mm.

Because, you know, having a disability, it's never been my disability

per se that has been my, my weakness.

Yeah.

It has been the perception of my disability that was my weakness,

or the view of, "Oh, he's, he's sick," or, "He needs,

he needs physical therapy and occupational therapy to be all these

great things."

And, and yes, you do need these types of things to, to

maintain and to control whatever physical or

mental or whatever that, that formula you need to, to gain

control of your body. But at a certain point,

you,

you reach a level where you're like, "Okay, I wanna do more." And

like, "I have a disability, but I wanna do all these other things."

And a lot of times what happens is people go, "You're disabled.

You can't do that." And, and that's a mentality, that's a

mind-