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Disability is one of those words we don't want to associate with. Everyone hates to be referred to as a disabled person. We don't like having disabled relations. When we helplessly have one, we see it as a curse, and may provide little or even no supports to the victim of "disability."
The general conception of people with any kind of disability is that they are handicapped and definitely limited in their dealings. If they are crippled, the assumption is that they cannot leap, if they are blind, the assumption is that they cannot lead. We have a preconceived limitation attached to any disability whatsoever.
The purpose of this write-up is not to rule out the limitation (s) upon anyone who permits, it is to reveal the hidden miracle and power in anyone who would dare to overcome the perceived disability. I have seen several "disabled" individuals who lived and died in pity. They begged confidently and announced to anyone who would listen how their fate had imposed begging on them. And during my early years, I believed that they were completely right having seen their predicaments.
My view and conception of people living with "disabilities" changed, first, when I watched pastor Nick of Australia do some amazing things irrespective of his rare case. I was further made to believe that disability is not in the arm, legs or anywhere except in the mindset when I saw the poster of a blind student running for the office of the president in a popular department in the university of Nigeria, Nsukka. That poster alone aroused an uncommon curiosity in me. I began to understudy the collection of people living with varied "disabilities" in my university hostels. My findings are not only interesting; they are motivating. I discovered that a blind student once emerged the best graduating student of his department...amongst others.
Four years later, I accompanied a friend to a popular saloon run by an amputee. She had lost one of her legs to disease or accident, but she maintained a firm resolve to actualize her dream - being a reputable stylist.
At this point, we have seen that having a leg or the lack of it is not the primary factor for productivity. We are convinced that it lies in the mindset. We need to go out there to encourage folks who think they cannot achieve. The disabled must also remember the paralympics champions.
