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12 Sep 2011, 15:56
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I just saw this video and I was amazed by how freaking positive this guy can stay when being in such a difficult situation and he even has time for an opening joke, brilliant!
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quite a nice guy i guess but i hate he fact that he makes money with his disabilities. imagine you were in similar circustances but you had to live "a normal life" where people dont applaude your heroism but look at you in disgust or dont even dare to look at you at all.
makes us, abled, people feel better but is deeply disrespectful.
Ones are lucky and other ones not...
let it be an inspiration to you then but i cant find any in this video.
It is disrespectful to other handicapped people that this guy is popular and happy? That he is getting booked to give speeches about his experiences as a handicapped person? Is it disrespectful to people who sing as a hobby that Justin Timberlake is getting paid to do sing?
Tell me why it is disrespectful to other handicapped people that this guy is a popular, happy and "succesful" man.
i think he fails to deliver that as all he displays is him being a popular guy and happy guy. his speeches are motivational but without any actual content. i believe that they will inspire the abled but i fear they might have a very different effect on disabled people.
you cant possibly know what it would mean to a "deformed" person ("gross to the eye") to be part of such a large crowd, to speak in front of them and most of all to be touched by them (hugs).
i find the idea of displaying someone being happy and saying "just be happy" to be extrodenaryly ignorant towards the problematic social interactions those people face.
it makes us feel good but offers nothing but grief and perceived arrogance to disabled people.
thats how i think of it. if you see it differently let it be an inspirtation to your own life but let othrs have their own oppinion (as long as its founded and not blatant) and never be so ignorant to think that you could remotly understand the challenges those people face in their lifes and how socially abandoned they feel.
You're basically saying that it is disrespectful of this guy to do what he does?
Most of us, if not all, in a situation like his would have hated life and wouldn't have given it the effort that he has. He's probably done a lot more in life that you probably ever will to get where he currently is. And that is the reason why he now can earn money and share his experiences with people over the globe. Not because PR-agents called him and gave him a manuscript.
Other people in his situation probably cheers this guy on and are thankful to see that there's other like them with the same disabilities who are actually able to do a lot with their life.
alol im doing is presenting another point of view reminding people that a "fell good movie" for some can be (inadvertently) offensive to others.
What you are saying: "He's making people like himself feel bad because they haven't achieved what he has."
Now that's life though.
There are people like you and me starving in Africa at the moment. Of course that is unfair.
I'm not missing your point, your just not making any.
wait, whats that then
your point, your just not making any -> What you are saying
oh sweet irony
e: not confirming that you understood me but it seems to be redundant to try and make you.
I just thought it was far fetched that you'd actually think like that.
Other people in his situation probably cheers this guy on and are thankful to see that there's other like them with the same disabilities who are actually able to do a lot with their life.
this is becomming a farce.
I for one would probably be like dinev has described below, which is why I respect him :>
all you want is to feel good that someone in a difficult situation is satisfied with himself, feel the "if he can do it, hell, i can aswell"-factor while you (and he) is absolutely oblivious to the real challenges those people face.
Even talking about the effect on abled people: might be inspiring, but might also further the distance in felt responsibility ("look at him being like that and still being happy, poohh and here i was thinking i would have to approach and support myself but they seem to do alright"). have you ever thought about that potential effect? guess not.
it was a speech to kids/young teenagers and you seem not to be able to access another layer of the topic than the obivously intended "feel good motivation".
naive people like you make me severely mad, excuse my frankness
And I don't think that he is "oblivious" towards the fact that he is handicapped either, if you asked he'd probably answer that he's fully aware of that his arms are missing.
I simply think that many in his situation would appreciate the fact that he's gotten that far. And I wouldn't call myself naive for thinking so. I guess that this is where we disagree.
I'm happy for what I have, and I don't need him to increase that feeling. It's cool though of him to step up and be as strong as he is, which is why I respect him. And many others as well.
i wont deny that
I just point towards this movie not being all peachy. thats the problem with people responding in a threat not reading what has already been written.
i have huge respect for people like him, because i probably wouldnt be like that, i guess i would just be fucking mad all day long... and i would be complaining and whining and hatin all the time >:o
its just as hard to imagine to have a girlfriend or a ferrari or a mio $
€: oh wait its not even hard