Hi guys, this is all here with a new video after a very long break, which I'm very,
very sorry for.
And
yes, if you're here for the first time,
I'm all out. Like I said,
I am disabled.
So you might wanna watch my last video where I talk about my disability more.
So in this video,
I would like to tell you about 10 things that I really like about being disabled.
However crazy it may sound being disabled is not
the worst thing in the world for most people.
So my disability is called
Arthro
Group
Multiplex Congenital.
It's a MC
and it's a physical disability. My hands
look
a bit different and
I can do a bit less things with them.
I also walk in a bit different way.
But even with that, I'm completely independent right now,
the first thing which I don't know if it's the most important or not, but I,
for some reason
it seem, seem to me to be a good thing to do in the first place
are all the lessons that my disability taught me. All the experiences that I had.
I know for a fact that I would be a completely different person if I wasn't disabled.
And I don't really like the idea of that, of being, you know,
a completely different person
and of the lessons that I've learned in the past 20 years,
I know that some, maybe, most, probably not, most of them, but some of them
were caused by my, by my disability
and,
and it wasn't, you know,
easy when I was a child I had a lot of, uh, had to do a lot of exercises,
had some surgeries and stuff like that,
but I'm not mad about it.
I feel like it made me stronger.
So it really sounds crazy. But I'm really glad
that I had the opportunity
to learn mostly about myself and also of the experiences that I had,
they just shaped who I am right now and I wouldn't like to change it.
So,
if I don't want to change who I am now,
I don't wanna change my disability if you know what I mean?
So the next thing is kind of connected to that
and it's
what interests I have and what knowledge I have,
which was some of that was also because of my disability.
I know that if I wasn't disabled,
I would probably choose a different career path for myself.
And maybe I wouldn't be, you know, interested
in the things that I'm interested in now and I didn't,
wouldn't have the same hobbies that I have now.
So
it's also the same thing. I just like being myself now. I like what I'm interested in.
I like who I am right now.
So I just
wouldn't like to change it.
The first thing is also kind of connected to
the first two things that I've just talked about
and it's the tolerance and empathy that I have for other people, which I hope
I would also have if I wasn't disabled.
But I kind of think that
my disability made me more tolerant
as I experienced,
you know, being in a minority group.
And that's why I think that people like me
are probably more likely to be more tolerant
than maybe other people. I don't know, it's just my opinion. So
you can comment below if you have other opinions. So, yeah, I think that if you
experience some sort of bullying or
the lack of tolerance yourself,
then you're more likely to be tolerant towards other people.
And I really would rather be disabled, but,
you know,
tolerant for other minority groups and all other people than
not disabled and maybe not care about it that much.
So, the next point is the fact that I'm just more confident,
I'm more confident in my body. It wasn't like that for my whole life.
Don't get me wrong.
I wasn't confident and positive about my, about my body for my whole life.
It only started
maybe a few years ago, maybe even less, maybe like a year or two ago.
But I feel like I'm still learning that I'm still learning confidence,
but also feel like this ability sort of requires
you to be more confident than other people,
maybe not more confident,
but
to be
at the same level of confidence, you have to
work more on your own confidence
and on what you think about yourself. The next and fifth point
is the fact that
I think, and I hope that I judge people by their looks less
just because I
don't look perfect or normal. Like some people would probably say and think
I feel like
I don't really care what people look like.
I care what they look like inside because that's
how I would like people to think about me
and speaking about people,
the six point which I kind of wanted to put in the first place.
But
then again, I didn't, which
I don't know why.
But ok, the sixth point is all the people that I've met because of my disability.
I've made friends because of that both online and in real life.
I'm really, really happy that I've had a chance
to meet so many amazing people who I've met only because of my disability.
Like people who helped me in hospitals or when doing my exercises
and I wouldn't have met any of them if I wasn't disabled.
Of course, the next thing are all of the people
that
I haven't met,
which may sound weird to you.
But
I'm glad that I haven't met some of the people
because, you know, some people judge others by looks.
I'm pretty sure that some people didn't even approach me or try to talk to
me or become friends with me just because of the way I look like.
And why would I like to be friends with them
and why would I like to even interact with them?
So I'm actually really glad that because of the way
I look, I kind of made some people just
don't come to me and don't meet me,
which is great because I wouldn't like to meet them if they didn't like
if they didn't want to meet me because I look in a certain way.
So the eighth part is also about people,
but it's about people who helped me and how I'm more ok with asking people for help.
So even if you are disabled or not disabled,
I think that everyone should be able to ask other people for help.
And I feel like because I am disabled and I needed a lot of help
from people when I was younger and I still need some help from people.
Now,
I think that kind of made me more ok to ask for help
in other parts of life to not only
about things that I can't do because of my disability. And the next point
is the fact that my disability gives me opportunity to help other people.
And that's probably the main and most
important reason why I've started youtube channel,
I think that representation of all kinds of people in media is very important.
And I also feel like when I was younger and even now to be honest,
but especially when I was younger and I needed
to see people like me in media or online.
They weren't there, there is more and more people like me
and other disabled people
in social, especially in social media
right now. So it's great. It's amazing.
But I still feel like there's not a lot of people who are disabled but independent.
And that's what I always struggle with because I felt like I wasn't disabled enough,
but I also felt like I wasn't able enough.
And that's why I would like to
be this kind of person that
young Ola needed to see in the internet.
So if you ever need to talk to someone or if you'd like to ask me some questions
uh either about my disability or even if you have the same disability that I do,
which is a MC.
And you'd like to ask me about exercises I had or other stuff connected to that.
If you just
like to ask me anything, to be honest,
you can always leave a comment below or message me on my social media,
Instagram or Twitter.
And I would really, really love to talk with all of you.
And the last point is the opportunity to educate other people because
I don't think that all the people who watch me are disabled.
So for those of you who aren't, I hope that you learn
some things about
disabled people's lives here.
And even if I can speak, you know, about all of the disabled community,
I
at least can speak about myself and about things
from my own perspective and about my own opinions.
And I hope that some of them will be useful for,
for people who would like to learn more about those who live around them.
And maybe, you know, it would give some possibility for people to make new friends
or they will know how to approach disabled people better or how to talk to them.
We are not that scary, but we also have some things that
we really don't like what other people usually able by these people do.
So I also make videos about that about things that you should say or should do around
simple people and things you shouldn't.
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and what types of topics if you would like me to talk about?
Thank you very much for watching. I hope you're all well in these difficult times
and I hope you're all staying home. If your government told you to do so,
so stay safe and I'll see you next time.