with determination on the latest gadgets. how do they do it here? well, they have to say good, you know, sometimes the books are more exciting than real life. the we're hearing to read the point if there's no escape, the richer list german most streets for you as a spinal cord injury and needs working age means who was born with a disability affecting her coordination. paulina has a vision loss and luca and julia have learning disabilities. they tell the stories that move in this edition of d. w. 's, health magazine,

the estimated spinning of the people in the mood to live with disabilities. what makes them not difficult is openness that them the way they are treated by other people, all society in general. but let's hear from them. i'm in good shape. the . ready people with disabilities sometimes faced outright. i chose tennessee physical assault, insulting junk remarks. but other behavior is also being that thing. if people with disabilities are continually depicted as victims, when the companions are dressed but not themselves,

when hope is forced on them, even though they never asked for it. or when they are confronted with exaggerated displays of sympathy, as it's in lives with less with living. most people with disabilities strongly disagree. whenever sophie, how in ham dances she takes her mobility aids with her. she's been partially paralyzed from the waist down since 2017. but that didn't stop the 23 year old from pursuing her dream. a career as a dancer tends to dancing to me is something that comes from deep with bay. and in that it's a passion that i live in a language that i can speak for, which i need know, what was the doctor's office. she expresses herself on stages across germany. it hasn't been easy to get this far. she had to reinvent yourself as

a dancer. she began training at a dance academy in dresden and when she was 126 years later, doctors discovered a spinal abscess. bucks and emergency operation came too late. the abscess and partially severed her spinal cord resulting in what's called incomplete paraplegia and leaving her with the question, what now to and they were not as diagnosed. i manifested very blatant avoidance behavior. idle high. i said for me in the life i've chosen, it's out of the question that i'll never be able to walk again. i left her alone, never be able to dance again. some time i wanted to be in control of my life, of my body and of deciding what i do is my life is awesome. i am leaving martha. this determination is evident, both on and off the stage when she's not dancing. she enjoys spending time in the countryside near her home and dressed and she relies on her mental strength and

other physical abilities. so if you hollen him refuses to be defined by her disability, begin the disability or characteristics i'm so is being show to not being able to reach the cup up the or having sensitive skin and needing some fact to 50 rather than 30. that's how it was with me. i just have to learn to cope with my new traits that also gave. and she successfully carving out a career as a professional dancer. sophie, how in him works with choreographer as who develops inclusive pieces for dancers with and without disabilities. her goal is to convey the liberating nature of dance regardless of physical limitations. right, fall in this different my dream has definitely come true. i live the life of a dancer, i guess around. i get to see a lot of cities to meet great people, all the time came down. and so i'm living the sort of life i wish full not only

completely differently than i imagined. look, and i love, but that doesn't make it any worse, especially almost the choreography she's currently rehearsing isn't titled balance. it's about finding your foot day over and over again. so if you how and how most certainly found a firm footing in life with downs, the technology is developing a breathtaking pace. some people find that strengthening, they fear losing their jobs. but the advances also provide opportunities. for example, x can age people with vision impairments when they're out shopping or help them to recognize the faces of friends and their expressions. artificial intelligence can

open up whole new perspectives. let's take a look at an example from india. b, new money like learning how to use computers and artificial intelligence. a few years ago, she couldn't even hold a pen. the 24 year old from caroline and southern india was born with a physical disability. and i had a lot of problems with my balance. my head was what was pulling from one side to the other, completely uncontrollably. i could never keep my balance all sit up straight, things to therapy over to improve it, save my life. that then thing i things to an innovative i t project, a 100 people with physical and mental disabilities now have job prospects. new money that it has learned to coordinate the fingers of her right hand. this enables

her to operate the computer keyboard and she's now learning to enter data and create data tags. this data forms the basis for programs that use artificial intelligence. and she'll soon be among those contributing to advances in this new technology. this is, i never thought that i would be able to learn all these things even be able to work and the only industry i just wanted to do my best every day. and then all of a sudden the opportunity came to work here was computers in the that was the move and i realized what i was capable of fled up. the company was founded by robin thomas, who's worked in the industry for many years. for one of his projects, he visited a school specifically for people with disabilities. he realized that what they were lacking most were any real prospects for the future. he started giving the pool open own, but not what we have to create an a full system for them to bring this change,

sustain the scene and bring us us. so i forgot to call me behind it. so that's the, that's why you committed to do that because we cannot give them just some technology getting degree. think that technology back to the society. we are bringing people together and see those that goal system so that everyone can contribute to the nicholas. the foundation is late here at the therapy center here in the new money lot is working on her motor skills. the focus is mainly on her strong hand. the right one because this training method takes the form of a game, it distracts or a bed from the pain. she experiences doing the exercise that busy then and then i only improve when i train constantly. at 1st i cried in the in the thing that now i'm so happy about my progress, i almost don't care about the pain any move in the to the robin

tommy is overjoyed to see the strides made by the children and young adults. here. he succeeded in attracting numerous companies as donors and cooperation partners. the money is mainly invested in new technology for any special education. so you need and he goes to the a basic gave me fight that the system do you think is a lot of insight on the therapist. so what needs to be taken care whether it's his upper body, no valve body goose motor will find motor. the motor of that kind of milestones will be defined. mino, moneys diet, also studies at home for her new job in her room. she often spends hours practicing computer commands and english vocabulary meanings and discipline grammar other bins. a see they get. now she says, all that effort is paying off feeling valued like this is a great incentive for her to keep going. with the,

the good. i managed to listen to gross things, but we can look at the beginning. i thought it was impossible, but we have time because better and better. and now i'm being trained in the i t stick to that something else i would have thought completely impossible not long ago. but now i know what time really capable of know because uh they cannot at the start of another strenuous day me no money line is being taken to the therapy and training center where she'll again go beyond her pain threshold and have to overcome numerous hurdles and she's already learned a valuable lesson to never underestimate her own abilities. every 5 seconds, somebody in the world experiences vision loss. 9 out of 10 of those who are affected live in low middle income countries. inadequate health care or mail

nutrition, often to blame vision, those can result in a vicious circle without schooling, training or a job many of those effected or condemned to life in poverty. and we'll see countries the situation is less extreme, but there's too much to do. germany's national organization for people with visual impairments, for instance, has highlighted the danger electric calls pulse because they to client they might be many more problems elsewhere in the world. but it shows how the needs of people with disabilities often get overlooked time to raise awareness. usually you use a mirror to put on makeup pouting. a key go has to be a vision loss. she had to re learn the process by feel cutting last move, i can only see 0.01 percent is that if you can even tell me when i could still see something,

i like to do my makeup since becoming blind. i've learned what movements to make you. i've trained myself to do it on happiness. i thought i'm putting it. it's all a matter of practice, but it's still good to have a sister cook checking. is that okay? the orbit high up on the social media optic talk the 19 year old shift to everyday life with the whole world which has been pushed. imagine you were blind, the person comes up to you and tells you you are printing. what will you do then? of course, at the beginning you say thank you, talk to them, then you say you are too low. so what should i do is i've done that on the phone. i started doing it back in 2020, just for fun. because many people have written to me asking me how i cope them, how i can be blind and yet not quote unquote suffer item unplug solution.

and i found i can motivate people with my videos and make them laugh and to some of them going to short clips, get a lot of clicks. one video, you can go type a 1000000 that her mother was a bunch of the joke. you've had, move them out. she was begging of the cars. and she awesome. mm hm. is anyone behind us and then the thing and everyone was like, well, is she forgot my lines just interested in? i just played along with the opposite. no, mom my best. no one is all clear called to us out then stopped and just started laughing. marina nichol can handle it. the mother and daughter were being through a lot together, numerous doctors visits and treatments. some of them abroad, like the one in cuba, the 12 and it was also a very stressful, scary, and what was happening. love us for seats versus adult trip cool. shed those fears . i'm worried about sharon future. kind of you all right. i called to buy con book . i won't get

a boyfriend. i'm not going to have children and stuff like that. yeah, i'm a piece of me. so i also wondered why i got this disease and not my siblings or someone else who's probably in a nick who has come to accept things. well, it's more she's married and is about to have a baby. she's had a lot of practice often looking after her little sister. you have them with us. i saw what was involved to come have i have helped out a lot. so i said to myself, it looks as if i can also change diapers despite vision loss and new challenges are on the horizon. and no doubt new stories for take talk to the people which vision loss often seem to have other enhanced sensory skills. for example, they might be able to hear how far away a call is or feel when a subway train is approaching. sometimes what is regarded as an invitation can give

rise to read and special skills. working send to meet her by send to meet her. her hands can detect life threatening changes early jennifer. gordon's extraordinary dexterity allows her to feel very small changes in breast tissue. she has almost complete vision loss. that's why she's a medical tactile examiner for m t u for short as well. i have some beats here and they represent a we compile page lumps as small as hoff a send to me to the next 2 or what the doctor is able to tell. patients and that's one sense metering size up woods on the left. the last 2 or what a patient can feel to send to meet isn't what sites and that can already be far too late. and jennifer has a hereditary disease that causes complete loss of sight when she was diagnosed in 2015. her world came crashing down of a that's kind of the i asked myself, what kind of visually impaired person do.