Explorers have a desire to make sense of the unknown. I believe that spirit of exploration is in all of us - Mark Pollock
Find out more about some of the biggest over-coming-disability-to-succeed success stories.
Life Revolves Around Living, Not Around Disability
Many may find that their perception of people with disabilities is very different from what they imagined once they are exposed to real people, living real lives via images, as well and one on one experiences. A woman who recently had a roommate who was a wheelchair user due to paralysis stated, "I would say that I am inspired by a new consciousness, via the passing of knowledge, from this personal experience with my roommate. Before I thought people with disabilities lives revolved around their disability...when in actuality, it revolves around the same things that mine does...dating, working and going out. It revolves around living."
Perhaps in closing, we should consider another notable opinion on the issue from Actress, Storyteller and Coach Lyena Strelkoff, "If someone finds my life inspirational, good for them. We all need to be inspired. But calling me 'an inspiration' while not seeing that in yourself, your own life experience, all that you have done and overcome, is neither seeing me nor yourself correctly."
Rocky Bleier
was a professional football player for the Pittsburg Steelers, Rocky was hit in the legs by enemy shrapnel and rifle fire and cause rendering the partial loss of one foot which required multiple surgeries. He had to play professional football with shrapnel wounds and only part of one foot.
Jim Abbott
born without a right hand , He went on to play in the college baseball scene, all the way up into the New York Yankees.
He became one of the best left handed pitchers in the entire league, and scored a grand total of 888 strikeouts against opposing batters.
Natalie du Toit
When she was 17, du Toit was hit by a car while riding her scooter back to school. The accident was bad, and she had to have her left leg amputated at the knee. three months after the accident she was able to walk again. Du Toit then started swimming with a goal of competing in the 2002 Commonwealth games and the Olympics in the future. In the 2012 London Paralympic Games. During this competition, she won three gold medals and a silver medal.