Hi, everyone. I hope you're doing fine.
My name is Ola and it's a youtube channel where
I talk about my life as an independent disabled person.
If you haven't seen any of my previous videos,
check them out after watching this one.
And in this video, I would like to tell you about how my disability does not define me.
I realize that this youtube channel is about my disability.
So me saying that I am not my disability kind of doesn't make sense
but I have youtube channel just because I want to raise awareness of some issues.
But the fact that for the past few videos I've been
talking only about disability doesn't mean that this channel will always
be only about disabilities because this channel is about my life
as a disabled person and my life is not only disability.
So I'll cover here
some topics that are relevant at the moment or the ones that I just enjoy.
I'm kind of interested in seeing how would people react if
I've started posting some lifestyle videos or any videos other than
what I'm posting right now, which are videos only about disabilities.
Because right now I feel like there are mostly disabled people watching
me or people who have someone disabled in the family or among friends
because these are also people who I get most
comments from here on youtube or on Instagram.
So I'm just wondering if I started posting other stuff here,
would able bodied people come here to watch me or my disability
because I don't mind, you know,
people coming here only to watch how I kind of do my stuff
as a disabled person.
Because I know it's interesting for some people probably for people who
don't experience that or for people who don't have disabled people around them
and it's completely fine because we are all curious about, you know,
things that we don't know.
But I don't know. I'm just wondering
do disabled people get more views on lifestyle videos because
they're more interesting because they have disability or not.
And if you know, Molly
beg who channel a link below? She's a lifestyle youtuber, but she's also blind.
So I just wonder if people
follow her, if people.
So I just wonder if people subscribe to her
and follow her on Instagram only because she's blind
or do they actually want to follow her as a person?
So I'd like to do like a small experiment if I can call it like that.
And I would like to start posting other
videos and those directed especially to disabled people.
So I'll also be talking about my disability but in a way that able bodied
people could also want to watch it because that will be directed to them too.
I'd like to see if they come here at all and when they come here
they
prefer watching videos that have disability in the title.
Like let's say a day in the life of a disabled person or if they would come here,
even if I call this video a day in my life.
So I'll try to post different videos with different titles and
different descriptions just to see how it works because it's just interesting
to me because I just like to see if being disabled
kind of brings people to you more than not being disabled.
I don't know if it's just me, but I'm sometimes wondering if famous youtubers,
like let's say Shane Dawson or Casey NTED
or
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if I pronounce her surname correctly.
I'm sorry if I didn't, I'm just wondering if they were disabled,
would they be less famous or more famous
if they would have less subscribers or more subscribers,
if people would still like to watch them for them
or if people would watch them,
their disabilities? I just find it very interesting.
And for my videos, I've always wanted to show
that disabled people are not only disabled and that they have hobbies too,
that they can be sad or happy that
it's not about the disability.
And I think there's some misconception about disabled people because
of the way that they are represented in media,
in television and film.
This representation is nearly all the time, just very wrong.
They present disabled people ask if they were only
disabled as if they had no other characteristics.
And the character that is disabled in said film or TV,
show is always only either worrying about their
disability or being proud of their disability,
but it's never doing anything else.
What I've also noticed is that disabled people
are usually presented as a very nice kind,
kind of vulnerable.
I think that people want to show the disabled like that
because they are already in so imperfect.
So they want to kind of make the character equal and have a perfect personality.
And that is just not right because disabled people,
like all other people have different personalities, some can be extremely nice,
some can be extremely rude and that's how it should be presented
in TV and film too because that's just how it is.
And that's how society should see disabled people as not
disabled, but as people with different personalities, different hope based,
different interests, different everything
and just happening to be disabled.
At the same time, if you've seen my introduction video,
you know that I'm a huge TV show freak.
So I've listed free TV shows that I think they
have kind of a good representation of disabled people.
So the first one is called a Typical,
it's available on Netflix and it's about a teenager with autism who is just
his life is, you know, going through breakups, his,
going through problems at work and everything that all other people go through too.
So I think that's a really good representation
because it just shows that disabled people are as
normal as abled val people and that they
have other lives apart from their disability too.
The next example would be the good doctor,
which is not perfect because I think it's paying
too much attention to the fact that the main character
is actually autistic and just paying too much
attention to the problems around the disability.
But it's also showing other parts of the main character's life. So I think it's fine.
I think it's not perfect. But if you want to watch something
and not get mad that their presentation of disabled community is just awful
and just watch The Good Doctor because it's a cool TV show.
And it's also showing disabled people in a good way.
What I don't like about the first examples is the fact
that both disabled characters are played by abled by these people.
And I think that it's in the same way as for example, heterosexual,
playing homosexual people in TV,
or even worse transgender people being played by Cisgender actors.
So these two are not perfect, of course, but we can't expect too much, right?
And the last example is a Netflix show called Special, which I found
quite recently.
And what I like about it is that the main character is played by disabled actor
who,
who is actually playing himself. And the story presented in this show is his story.
He created this TV show, he acted in it.
And what I also like about it is that the main character is not presented as perfect.
He's presented as very flawed actually, which is good.
Finally, we have a disabled character who's not in a perfect angel,
helping everyone saving
everyone and just being super kind and amazing to everyone they meet
and themselves loving themselves, unconditionally,
loving the whole world unconditionally.
Finally, we have someone normal, so that will be it for this video.
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because I'm interested in filming more diverse content
just to see how people react to it.
So, thank you very much for watching again and I'll see you Sunday.