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a spokesman for handicapped children thank you. over the years alvin will make appearances on telephones across the country. one thing going. much better than other people. because a lot of handicappers. or people get it wrong. they look at alvin loni thank god it's tremendous how he can do things with his feet well i suppose if you look at your feet it's tremendous but these are my feet these are my hands too and i have been doing it forever these are not true and the speech is the only thing i've got so when i pick up a cup and i have a drink you know. oh wow what

a thrill that's not what it is but i do think. i thought that i was going to have to be a nun i didn't think that i was going to go on dates i didn't know what was going to happen and that that's not how it happened i had a great high school run i mean you know i had a lot of fun fans i had too much fun and if you're like me and my friends you drive around and look for holes and you gaskin it and that's both we did for entertainment not have a problem with girls i could always get a very nice girl it's beautiful girls intelligent girls but they couldn't get the stupid one. and i wanted the stupid. one night stand

but that i'd never had the cheapest she was wearing glasses maybe notice. i found my now wife when she was sixteen and. if you call it a lack of opportunity but i'm still with her. she was long and not stupid. for most of the miters getting behind the wheel of a car was the road to independence and freedom. the ways mason was determined to drive no matter how difficult it was for her just his sickly to get behind the wheel and do our best. driving instructor who never got the shot tonight disabled person that somebody had

gone to the next. test suites. was exactly the same as everyone else there's no difference they came so naturally not be driving we were transferred to most of my life and. given a college to. my parents they were the most practical people i think i've ever met in my entire life so when it came to learning how to drive. i was just practical that way you can get around on your own you know it depend on people to take care of you don't have to worry about. taking a bus or use your cam it was really just about trying to figure it out. and i just love driving i got a lot of different things but. most people don't consider the power of my mind i my mind is a very powerful tool and if you get into it interject all kinds of things into my system so that my feet are literally. my hands so when it comes to driving. i

get really seriously and i have high explain why can't i can drive with one foot on the wheel what is peoples excuse they've got both hands and their feet and yet they drive like. this doesn't exist. in germany. knew from an early age he had to choose a future occupation that would not require the use of. his deformed arms is all to see me true for the sick so to meet on the phone from her she's got a tremendous amount for to sum up i realized quite soon i'm never will be a conductor or a painter or a dancer i can't sing so i become a director because i don't know i can't do anything else but to pursue his dream nico went to prestigious film schools and apprenticed under the legendary german director rayner vernon fast binder before making a number of successful feature films but there was one prize job he wanted badly

directing a big movie until late in mind and the head of german t.v. said no you can't have the job but you can make a documentary on. the to might and i said you know i you know i know that was income and i shouted at him i use the f. word very loudly and very often because i said i apply for the job you know you pay well and not the documentary filmmaker who gets not paid you know and that's so typical you know you give the disabled dolly the side job you know and then i went home and my wife said what's the matter and i told her they want me to do a film about the little light. and what do i know about the little might go. and she looked at me and said they go it's time to look the devil in these. i don't know what your lives are like sometimes life can really be rough on people

i understand that i get it i've been in real life alvin law is a motivational speaker who's influenced audiences in north america and australia with his message of hope is specially to more than two million youngsters who heard his top speaking is the best thing i could have ever cited here you're helping kids and they need to have somebody come in and tell them that it's going to be ok but i get such tremendous joy out of doing it there is nothing in my life that makes you happier than speaking to kids nothing and the next time you're ready to give up or quit or back again well if it helps even a little bit remember the goofy looking guy that played the drums with his feet but remember the words i live by every day there's no such word as can't. thanks. allen travels over one hundred thousand miles a year on his own but after thirty years on the road his body is starting to where it takes its toll career and that stuff around i mean you know my body may not last

as long as normal bodies do because of what i'm putting it through i mean as much as i make this look easy i'm still put my body through a lot of stuff just the pain in my back from carrying my luggage and scar tissue in my shoulder from carrying a briefcase for thirty five years and you know there's not really a shoulder here so what i'm carrying it with i should be doing this i should have like a sherpa or something. how does a guy without arms function on the road all by himself i carry my own luggage with straps i check into all tells all on my own i i rent cars i make these are you go off thank you boss or in my toes think you know why do i rent cars and it's just how i prefer to function i don't do cabs or because strangely they don't stop when you go. trotting around the airports checking into hotels bad food driving everywhere in the middle of nowhere getting involved in blizzards and swearing at my wife for putting me out yet in another life and death situation and not think about getting paid enough so i mean i can get on

a rant but at the end of the day she also says this line this is a wonderful line. i mean if you're tired of traveling i'm sure there's a cubicle with your name written out in a windowless office somewhere in the middle of nowhere for a job that you minutes. and then it goes away. in germany. had to overcome his lifetime aversion to other things in my shoes when he decided to make a documentary in which he and eleven other victims would pose nude for a calendar first i went to a disability school and from that moment on i wanted to have nothing to do with the marcos anymore and then because i made this film nobody's perfect i was kind of forced to me. to make this film. i didn't want to look at myself. i'm going to

come on nobody's perfect change as if. to change how i look at myself. it changed the movement of so that i might it's complete because the first lawyer is not someone else not doctors were citing sauce really big time we were fighting i think for me for also a little martyrs but also for the public some see. the energy change. legal fund laws or how large your you know nobody's profit. in two thousand and eight nico received the german equivalent of an oscar for his documentary on that in the. days to china for me and for me to host this i know that i spent a million dollar trips we are dealing. with the environs if you go to didn't it.

keep. us up. thanks to get the money. in college eileen crown and fell in love with andy a graduate student in economics i was in love very definitely. although i already had a boyfriend you know i immediately was drawn to her you know her. intelligence. her wit we moved in together. and we got pregnant very quick. very quickly. i was wracked with worry all my life about having a child because i didn't know for sure that my mother had taken the limb out i was

kind of panicked it started just settle in oh my god i'm going to have a baby i don't even know if i can have a baby i don't know if the baby's going to have legs or not have legs or something else but also literally i did not know how i was going to carry a baby in my back and so they did the ultrasound the alters sound technician zoomed in right away found foot one foot blew it up took a picture and wrote five and then other foot hands fingers and. i was crying and all the interred started babin we knew that she would be ok. and i only are best friends it's not hard to understand why i. took up to be

a ballet dancer because that's something her mother wanted to be and she was very. new. to prepare the programme i had to look at a lot of material listened to a lot of material and also read a lot of material but. it was appalling. and not only that when you get these images into your head and of course the images that i was you know formal graphic than anything i could include enough. in a television program. the new global economic war is unfolding in the realm of education the right to education

has been supplanted by the right to access education low its high education is becoming just another product that can be bought and sold to understand just about education anymore it's also about running a business and what you're good models of the regime look good it's also the kind of fellow they couldn't. want is the place of students in this business model before college i was more now in an extremely more higher education the new global economic wall. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to get off of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. four men are sitting in a car when the fifth good shot of the man. all

four different versions of what happened one of them is on the death row there's no way he could have done it there's no possible way because all this did not shoot around a corner. when his first wife sandy became pregnant alvin law was terrified about what the future held when i saw him come out of there with two arms and. to hands and five little fingers and. i didn't care what brand he was at all care if it was a she or he it didn't matter. it was just the most tremendous feeling my son. i knew it again. because you know in fact i worried a lot about how i was going to play ball with i was going to maybe try teaching know what it's all about a teach them to play frisbee impeachment throw or you know i mean all those things

that you want to have a care if yours do. we don't have to have arms to be a father. you don't need arms to love. you don't you know arms to be there you don't mean arms to listen you don't need arms to be a father at all unfortunately too many fathers that have watched it realize that. they were forget that that's true you just have to be there for him. that surprised me. the tears i don't i'm not sad i'm just. as big he was little and. i miss that little boy sometimes but that's not how life works right now is a normal regular person he's got same regular personality there's nothing really wrong about it and you just have to. to step to knowing you can't just judging by the way he looks but he brings in what he gives as much more so than anything else

could bring you know he he gives great you know fatherly advice is a great role model is a great person. and that's all you can ask. louise mason had been a single mother for ten years when she received a christmas card from an old boyfriend i've heard that louis haven't been very well and trying to a christmas card and come down and get a loan i think the spark reignited if the best way i could describe it he kissed me goodbye and buster flies were. i was sort of floating on on a cloud and he told his wife he was leaving. she how to impact our. and then he moved down in. the been together since. polygamy out it up and understanding with each other it's really weird you know

that we cannot act on then and you go i wouldn't know what i'm talking about what you don't about but i know right away what you pointed out you know that a lot of the head or a mannerism you pick up you know that little mode if you just pick up on it or that it was i was sick then you know it really really fascinating where we communicate he would go there without even talking. and i think we i think we were made for it with it to be honest. dharma think and twenty eight years old divorced got a kid losing my hair gaining a gut no arms what a package and then i got to thinking you know i've got to change this that's how allen introduced himself to his future wife darlene who was sitting in the audience one day that conference was the first time i heard him speak and it actually believe you know it sounds corny but it was a life changing event for me i was in the process of. considering making

a final decision about a rather unhappy marriage. i thought yeah right life is too short i have to make decisions for myself. i mean anybody that sees her for the first time missed that smile and just absolutely and i melt. i have friends who tell me that i smiled more the day of my wedding than they've ever seen me smile in my entire life and it was permanently glued there for days. it was the beginning of the joy that ended in the ring on the finger and it's still there today. you can't even describe it it's like all these years of anxious and frustration just melted away in five minutes. you still. write. here life is letter she's passed her best before date so she's got no choice you've got to stick with me about there's no option no me. there i don't stop traffic.

you know you know we. are down. the. lows just like anybody else just keeps getting better and. it's getting better. we're there's a lot of credit that i get for doing this but i didn't just do this you know i had my parents first i had my teacher second and then i had her and those three elements of my life they've really been what has supplied the fuel for what drives . me in australia. with the british company that bought and still has co-defendants in a multi-million dollar class action suit centered on the next row case melbourne woman lynette rowe is suing the drugs manufacturer grin and tell the company wanted they can. in germany where it's never successfully been so that the victorian

supreme court today dismissed that application this was an application by the company that might lead him on the worst drug in the history of medicine to have an armless legless woman who has no money and doesn't speak german if she wishes to have a day in court have to move to germany for the next five years so we had. an agreement ours are defendants grants how have this never given never admit a thing never concede fight to the bitter end the still has a much more compassionate sensible way to approach which was once convinced of the strength of the claim they settled with when you couldn't tell than post sent we had to get up and fight aids day every day and cope with the incredible damage they grow into adults don't really know now that the settlement amount was a multi-billion dollar some it was

a sum sufficient to provide lynn with first class care for the rest of off it really has dramatically transform the rose law grin and refused to pay a cent of the multi-million dollar settlement a two months later held a press conference so it could have a college eyes to its victims for the first time in fifty years the other way no it's because women surely the first chance to get a longish to victory in front managed to mention. a dozen obviously just to sell out their apologized for some. reach out to us all. they are they're never apologized for the suffering they're coaxed. and they did pay for that you know for their wrong it was no a pledge it already comes from the heart. their apology came from their lawyers it because he needs the longest. as a citation just him and i should also then he issued by ones that are looked at

f.e.m.a. couldn't have gone into some of them check we had to get up and fight aids day and day every day in court with the incredible damage they've grown to or don't do. to me and then their family no. good intel is still a privately owned company the votes family owns it to die just as it did in one hundred sixty it does not have show shareholders demanding returns the first family's personal fortune has been variously estimated at between two and three billion euros it would not drive that family into. penury or bankruptcy or poverty to loosen the purse strings and behave in a more generous fashion suppose i did not only want the money i want the rivera church. i want the rivera she you know they they kilt feist's thousand children yeah they made a lot of five thousand children slice miserable then make the life of ten thousand

parents. yeah they are responsible for the should pay for. themselves no longer makes them in the mind and continue to deny most of the little mite is outside germany any compensation no survivors feel they have received an acceptable apology. going into our refuse to be interviewed for this film. the original thalidomide drug is easy and cheap to manufacture and continues to be made and distributed by several drug companies and governments to treat laugh or say unfortunately it is mostly used in countries that often do not enforce rigorous controls and regulations as a result the little mind injured babies are still being over. tragically there seems to be no limits to the thalidomide disaster yeah.

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