Going to meet young lady whos trying to bring together sides im really looking forward to this interview today because normally i have to look up to my interview partner because he or she. Or if to stand on Something Like a box to be an eye level today i didnt mean to meet you so how tall are you so normally my answer to this is its obvious but. One reader and. How do people react when they meet you for the 1st time well thats very different most of them are friendly but i do recognize there are kind of insecure because they dont know how to talk to me or. They want to do Something Like. That but most of them are very very friendly at most of the time were here in Berlin Institution called we are people with disabilities and people with out any disability working together so we continue talking just a moment but 1st lets have a look around ok. Leave your low ground short stature shes a writer blogger slam poet and radio presenter she writes and talks about discrimination of women about inclusion and about how people with and without disabilities can get along. 50 percent of the worlds population have a disability and many of them the night human rights which is unbelievable 10 years ago there was a reason lucian put in place protecting the rights and dignity of them but the law is one thing real life is another many people with disabilities are excluded and discriminated this one then no wonder who. Take a look at self this is. A man who can lift up to 160 kilograms hes been a member of the paralympic delegation and travels to International Sports competitions but his story is also about inner strength. Life is a street child. When i was 8 years old i got polio. The disease affected one leg when i was taken to the hospital i got injections and suddenly my 2nd leg was also affected thats why i am disabled in both legs. Not long afterwards both of his parents. Dropped out of school since there was no one to take care of him he was forced to live on the street. I slept on the outside veranda of houses. Sometimes even in garbage containers where i went to look for some leftovers to eat so my life as a street child really wasnt easy. Despite the rwandan governments efforts at inclusion children with disabilities still face stigma many on the street. When a family is poor and they have a child with disabilities that child is often not welcome and often society doesnt welcome that child either. To meet the challenges of daily life as a teenager trios then started Strength Training outside on the street it was his own idea but. I just exercised on the road Street Children need to protect themselves against threats from others. Thats why i started training. I wanted to be strong to protect myself in times of trouble. In 2003 his life changed. With still training in a very basic gym which he had set up himself a politician approached him and suggested he join the wonders National Power of Powerlifting Team when he was 21 then went to his 1st International Competition the pan african games held in nigeria and you know i started sleeping in hotels life was suddenly great i had nice food and they even gave me new clothes. That was followed by the Commonwealth Games other competitions in africa even the 2012 paralympics in london tales and travelled the world. With his paintings as a professional athlete he was able to rent his own house and purchase a cargo bike. And this is my bike i look for people who need transport. We put their cargo on my bike and i transported for them. Thats how i earn my living. Situation is now 37 hes a trainer a motivational speaker and a role model for others living with disability. As like a brother to me a friend. And its all my i have i have because of teo. Thanks to him im a professional athlete today. I dont know where i came from it motivates me to help others. And often invites young street people to a free training session. For a hot meal he hopes that one day people with disabilities will have the same opportunities as everyone else and that all of his friends will achieve their goals. As i wanted to go i would like to run a place where i welcome people with disabilities and motivate them to do sports and realize their dreams i would also like to offer them education because most of them could not go to school. Until his vision becomes reality cheers you know its about Small Victories one at a time. 2 years and this is taking a stand for people with disabilities hes going out into the public and then so are you actually your blog or your poetry and you write and you want to raise awareness i guess so so what you want to achieve with this yeah i think this able people are still discriminated in the society and political ways so i want to use creative ways and the stage the reach i have in social media. To say hey thats not ok we want the same rights like people without disabilities and we need to talk about things like that. Do you think of being moved or do you more thing that society is putting you into some kind of corner 1st of all i dont think disabled is like a bad word or something. But there are ways where i am disabled or things i am disabled. Like in daily life i can. Bottles to the container so its too high for me or are the things which are too high so i can reach them and there are situations when people pass by. Like touching my hands like a small pet or something. These are all things which are very discriminate discriminating to me. And which i dont understand. Lets talk about discrimination because there are studies that say that about 70 percent of people who just commute with disabilities are being discriminated in germany alone so what are your experiences about this being touched in the head is one being touched on the head is one and other things are like disrespectful behavior. So when i stand in line at the bakery or something people walk by and. Go to the front without noticing me or something and i which is a big part so i often do hear insults or Something Like that lets talk a little bit about language because you were supposed to use them but use language in raising emotion people so what kind of roles or something which play discrimination i think language is playing a big role because language is building images in our heads so if we are talking disrespectful about people the situation will get better so my goal is to show people you can talk about people with disabilities or you can talk with people with disabilities without being disrespectful and use words without any problems so do you think that most of the discrimination words and language used is not intended by the people yes i do think its not intended but whats more important for me is what the other side is feeling when somebody is talking like even when its not intended the other one can feel very bad about it. So you can. Talk to the person and when somebody says well dont use this word please. That its important to you to think about it its respect to get him to suspect this and i think its a lot of insecurity of people and dealing with of the p. With disabilities so so how whats your advice how can you help them. In my advice is to talk to each other so just ask questions is it ok i talk with you. When youre talking with me do i need to sit down or can i stand when im talking with you or just do i have to carry something for you because its too big or something and just respect the answer i think communication is the key to inclusion what a great. But i do think its like that that was something completely different if you like music yes of course and you bought into concert yet let me ask you a provocative question do you see anything if youre on the concert no of course but do you see anything when youre at the concept. Of it all but there. Is this to screening and no i dont think thats its kind of provocative but thats not discriminating because there are a lot of people who dont see anything at a concert and im short and you see that so its for me its no problem to talk about things like that but going to a concert and seeing anything is one thing but not hearing anything is that there are people with disabilities who go to concerts to maybe take just a balloon and feed of the sound in the building but what if you want to listen to the text and the lyrics and you cant hear anything then people like ok take a look at. The sound of some of the stuff. Truly inclusive. He. Visualizes the lyrics and emotional power of live music a jump she puts the heart and soul into elections the moment is the best moments are when deaf people start singing along by signing along and i always think wow you understand me so i still cant get over that my hands can speak i still find it amazing and its great when you have the entire crowd standing there clapping like this i really hope they do today to see a likeable. Is a sign Language Interpreter specializing in music concerts shes feeling a bit nervous because its her 1st time on stage at the famous vulcan heavy Metal Festival but she always prepares meticulously for each song. Is coming in and then off we go out i cant explain to someone whos never been able to hear what a violin or viola sounds like or a heavy metal concert they can explain to me what it feels like it but it doesnt work the other way around. What i can do is get across the intensity of the power and emotions or even despair of an electric guitar for example its happening that i can do. Its not just the sound that makes the music but the emotions on the story it tells. Novas own story began when she became fascinated with sign language while still a young girl when her best friend lost his hearing her hands learn how to do the talking and thats still the medium for her interpreter in work which is always quite a challenge. To. See how do you know a sentence takes longer in sign language than in spoken language but find a grammar let me paraphrase and swap things around us so i end up just as fast and all the content is there just sometimes in a slightly different order. Lower called say how many deaf people there are all in the crowd not that it matters. Kutztown de vaughn give her the lowdown afterwards on what a concert literally feels like but deaf people. Get up on the ground vibrates and you feel it in your whole body. Its not exactly the ground is loud and you can feel the air around you vibrating like its great. Its like. Its the 1st time theyve seen love on live on stage and theyre most appreciative. Of it now i feel really included that were able to come here and join in and be part of the crowd was it still is that its not just having an interpreter is great it would be annoying without one but this is awesome. That the. Music comes from the heart and so does love us interpret. Her awards applause in sign language. Moving around town working exercising for people with disabilities things are sometimes difficult or just different but this still can be a lot of fun. When you want to do that around the world always looks different from up here this ramp is so short all right down with a we really really want. David liberals are in his element the wheelchair skating or w. C. M. X. Pro often comes to the skating hall in berlin. The big whether you have a disability or not doesnt matter if you want to skate and you skate everyone knows there are some risks but when you go to a skate park for the 1st time you dont head for the 3 metre ramp you start small and work your way off. On both all of. Your hearts it has been attending w. C. M. X. Sessions for 2 years now shes even acquired a nickname. Is coming on i can go down the ramps with we lease i can basically do a weekly for 5 hours david called me that were making. Doing well that is riding only on the back wheels also helps a wheelchair user get around better in daily life although the professional skater wheelchairs here have a special front axle and suspension anyone can come and try out the sport. The best w. C. M. X. Riders head to the skating holes and parks in the u. S. World championships are held there in the skate parts of california florida and texas the w. C. M. X. Athletes can show off their skills outdoors im wheels from las vegas in the usa im ready you see im. Aaron wills fathering how missed the w cmyk star his daring tricks were a big incentive for german writer david looser as he does not want to spend every time it seems like someones catching up to aaron he takes another 2. Steps forward so yes hes always an inspiration to me and to others. Maybe the hardest thing in w c m x is starting it this is a sport that takes a lot of courage and determination but its worth it. Here workshops for people who sit in a wheelchair and those who dont workshops like everyone works together people with disabilities and people without any do you think this is very important to create a sense of normality well of course this is important always have to smile when somebody says well we do an inclusive. Theatre project or something and in the end there are people with disabilities who are working together or play together this is great and fun but its not inclusive because you always need to bring people with and without disabilities together for things like that and its not only a sense of normality it is right for the people with and without the disability to Work Together and to live together because of the you and disability act right in this or even started early life like in kindergarten all i can school where there are in terms of classes this is important to start with very early yet so important because i think when people from a very early age are living together with any kind of individuals its kind of normal when you grew up. You lose. This feeling. To not want to talk to people with disabilities or to be unsure how to talk to people with disabilities and so i think its very important to bring all these people together like just when they are 2 years old or something. Sometimes or i think of the greater part of your life you use humor as a method to. Talk about possibilities like the poetry slam or in your books. Or so i think its the best method. People really listen to what you have to say because its not like the. Guy i just tell you how to do this and you are all bad and use the wrong leg which. Its welcoming and its kind of funny but they also go home and take this message. Set on the stage with them and think about it and i think that thats a good way to influence people. But this still remains a very serious talk especially women with disabilities have a higher risk of being sexually abused what can we do. I think what we can do. To vote and to look at all the. Parties what they are doing for people with disabilities. To talk about things like that and to listen to people with disabilities what they are. Experienced in their daily lives what they are talking about and to give them a voice perhaps. To give them a voice in social media and get Something Like that. So tell me something about its project yeah thats a good question. Im not the kind of. Not the type whos planning everything so i have an idea for which im working on and im looking forward to all the. Events im hosting in the near future and when i can wish for something i really would like to host the german t. V. Awards show i think thats the right person for this that you want to go to because i would host it so so maybe we can who sit together ok ok ok and keeping with the flowing of planning so much is a very very good idea because this is how we plan or so we dont plan it because we need your questions. On an upcoming show well be talking about cannabis for many its not just a recreational drug but a healing one how does marijuana thank you and what are the risks send your questions and in good shape dot com just try cannabis and the subject line we look forward to hearing. Imagine a world where the stand to check if a child will become disabled and then stop this child for me. Through abortion in some cases doctors are already doing this but good for world. Com i want to ask my mother what would have happened had she known about my disability and whether she might have had an abortion she started crying. Soon after i was born it was clear that i had a neural tube defect was called spinal bifida. Or that meant i had various difficulties especially when it came to walking on. Another common symptom with spinal bifida is hydrocephalus which is a condition where cerebral spinal fluid can drain properly from the brain and shortly after i was born i had a shunt implanted it drains that fluid through a catheter into my abdomen and. Soon after that doctors told my mother that i probably wouldnt survive to adulthood today we know that those kinds of predictions were completely off base of course the doctors were wrong and it caused us a great deal of fear and stress. That i felt. When that is finished us on the whole i dont want to demonize prenatal diagnostics it can be helpful for example it can help couples who are having a baby know what to expect. But i dont believe it should result in what i would consider hasty or unnecessary abortions. Up time and. Has had to feel quite that fewer people with disabilities would have all sorts of consequences for our Health Care System and. Insurance providers would say they could save lots of money a fewer people have special needs. But medical care is always Getting Better which will also lessen the impact of a disability i also work. To get done because that stuff the idea of a society full of designer babies is something that does concern me that i do find disturbing. I dont believe it would be good for society if all of the differences among us were racist. You know. For me that also means that people with disabilities are an important part of our society theyre part of the diversity our Society Depends on it. Thank you for all of those interesting talks you like to say to all of us i guess of course just remember communication is the key to. Thank you so much and see you next week and then lets all try to stay as we are. A Winter Sports paradise even without water. Yes you can do sports in the thuringian forest even without snow. I also take a look at mining in a city known for its theatrical at using the history. Book or showing it takes is one of the eastern germanys most beautiful vacation areas. Next to. These. Parents have fond memories of their daughter who has now transition. Or in a sense of self did not agree with the body was assigned to earth. Its a difficult task for a entire family. In the wrong body. Girl to change a boy. 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