Hi, I'm Ola and I'm 99% able. Today, I wanted to show you my disability
because in the previous videos and blog posts,
I talked only about other people's disabilities.
But this project,
this blog and this youtube channel is about my
life and my experiences as a disabled person.
So yes, I figured that it's the right time to show you
my disability to tell you a bit about it, to show you how I look like,
tell you about my experiences.
So my disability is called
arthrogryposis
Multiplex congenital.
And I was born like that. It's not progressing right now.
It might progress in the future,
but it doesn't change for the worse. Now. I'm only getting more abilities.
Uh right now
and when I was born, I had way less ability.
So it's
how I look now, how much ability, how, how able I am right now
and how independent I am. It's all thanks to the surgeries that I had
and thanks to exercise that I did, I am fully independent. I live on my own.
I moved from my
family house
in Poland to UK
to study and to live with my friends So I don't really need,
need anyone's help in my everyday life.
But this blog and this youtube channel is called 99% able.
As there are some things that I still, you know, need help doing.
But it's, it's really small, like for example, opening a can or opening a bottle.
So these are the things that you can just ask
anyone even on the street to help you with that.
So
I, yeah, I live independently.
Uh but I wouldn't be able to,
to be in such a good condition if it
wasn't for the surgeries and the exercises that I did
when I was younger.
So yeah, this is me.
I don't think you can see my disability clearly when I'm wearing long sleeve.
I don't know.
People don't often notice that I had a few friends who only noticed my disability
after a few months of knowing each other.
I am affected in my arms hands and also my feet and my legs.
So I also walk in a different way
than others. But people don't see that as a disability often, but just that I
walk weird or that I look weird generally.
So
yeah, this is me, my hands look weird.
My feet look weird the way I walk looks weird. But this is
my disability and this is my life. As you can see my right hand,
my right arm is in bit worse condition than the left one because I'm left handed.
So I do
more things with my left hand. So I
exercise it at the same time when I just do
some basic things every day.
Yes. So
that's what I look like.
That's what my, that's what my disability looks like.
And if you want to learn more about my disability,
check out my blog, I'll link it below. I'll
say a bit more about my experiences when I was younger. And now,
so thank you for watching and
see you next week.