Category: Life
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How do I celebrate this year’s IDPwD?
This Friday is the annual International Day of People with Disabilities. Since I left school in 2019, I made sure to celebrate this in some sort of way. IDPwD (International Day of People with Disabilities) is an annual celebration for people with disabilities. On the 3rd of December there is, to boost awareness about disability…
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Million Reasons
Every year, World Cerebral Palsy Day is celebrated across the globe on the 6th of October. This celebration as the title says, is to celebrate cerebral palsy, as well as to bring awareness to CP. This year’s theme for World CP Day is a million reasons. I was diagnoses with Cerebral Palsy not long after…
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Disability isn’t a bad word
Growing up, I didn’t really like the word “disability” or even “Cerebral Palsy”. Yes, this might not sound like me, but this was the old me, the me that I was too ashamed to call a disabled person. To have pride in you or to identify with the word “pride”, doesn’t necessarily mean that you…
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What does it takes to be a young leader?
Growing up, I didn’t know much about disability, and how society sees disabled people. As some of you know, I got into writing and advocacy in 2017 when I built this website, but within saying that I still didn’t know what I was going on about until I graduated high school two years ago. Since…
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What is Para-sport?
Growing up, I didn’t know para-sport apart from the Paralympics which was held every four years. I did sports as a child, but it was either RDA (Riding Disabled Association) or normal sport with non-disabled kids. Para-sport is able-bodied sports which is modified for people with physical, intellectual and sensory disabilities. This modification can be…
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What is cerebral palsy?
Today marks the start of Cerebral Palsy (CP) Awareness Month, a month to educate others about CP. Started in 2006 from Reaching for the Stars, A Foundation of Hope for Children with Cerebral Palsy – RFTS, a non-profit organisation which run by parents of children with cerebral palsy. These people help raise awareness about cerebral…
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Study as a disabled person
As many of you know, there is a massive jump in between high school and TAFE or high school and university. Here’s a blog for some few tips and tricks you can do to save time in between this transition stage. I always knew that I wanted to continue studying when I finished year 12,…
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What is wheelchair tennis?
As many of you know, I’m taking a break from athletics at the moment. My goal has always been to find some friends, and to find a community. While I am thankful for the friends, I have made, and the people I have met through athletics; I just don’t think the sport is for me…
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Survival kit during COVID-19
Hey folks, We don’t know how long this “stay at home” thing is going to be in Western Australia, and so I wanted to write up some hobbies that you can do during this strange time. For those of you that don’t know, as of Sunday (31st of Jan), the Perth Metropolitan, Peel and South-West…
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See more than my disability
Through the work that the I Weigh Community were doing in 2018; the incredible Nina Tame created her little spin on this work and called it “disabled and …”. This was for a little bit of fun, but also to break down the stigmas and barriers that is associated with disability. As many of you…