thank you. thank you thank you phew thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you. so i don't walk into. my own body to have a good body. thank you in law found himself in the public limelight when he became his problems the spokesman for handicapped children.

released. over the years alvin will make appearances on telephones across the country. one thing going to. look live look not better than other people. because a lot of helicopters to kill people get it wrong i think you look at alvin law and thank god it's tremendous how you 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 tremendous feet is the only thing that i've got so when i pick up a cup and i have a drink you know. wow what a thrill what it is i do think live

thank you i thought and i was going to have to be a nine. 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 i had my friends i had too much fun and if you're like me and my friends you drive around and look for holes and you go skinny and that's both we did for entertainment. i have a problem with girls i could always get very nice girls beautiful girls intelligent girls but they couldn't get the stupid one. and i wanted the stupid grand one for one night stand but that i never achieved she was wearing glasses i didn't notice. but i found my know why yes

when she was sixteen and. maybe you call it a lack of opportunity but i'm still with her. she was long and not stupid. for most but in my 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 up her seat. driving instructor to never have a shot tonight say. somebody. took the test which. was exactly the same as everyone else there's no difference they came

so naturally not be driving. in most of my life and. yet in a college just because. 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. that was just practical that way you can get around on your own you're going to have nine people to take care of you don't have to worry about. taking a bus or using a jam and it was really just about trying to figure it out. anyway i just love driving what i love different things about to do. what people don't consider the power of my mind and i my mind is very powerful tool and it 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 make any sense to me. in germany. knew from an. early age he had to choose a future occupation that would not require the use of his deformed arms because all troops leaving from for six hours to meet on the phone from bitches about him and some other fortissimo i realized quite soon i'm never will be a conductor or a painter or a dancer i can't sing so i became a director because of him you know i can't do anything else but to pursue his dream nikko 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. for the two might and i said you know i you know i think 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 a documentary filmmaker who gets all pate you know and that's all typical you know you give the disabled guy 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 mite and what do i know about the little mite. and she looked at me and said. they go it's time to look the devil in the. hand 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 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 my keys there you go oh thank you boston micros think you are now why do i rent cars and it's just how i prefer to function i don't do cabs because strangely they don't stop when you go. trotting around all the airports checking into hotels eat bad food drive in 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 mundane job that you do by minutes. and then it goes. 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 marcus 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. any come on nobody's perfect change as. it changed 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 fighting for us really big time we were fighting i think for me. also as a lender miters but also for the public some say. the energy change. legal fund law is all a logical thing nobody's perfect thanks. in two thousand and eight nico received the german equivalent of an oscar for his documentary on thunderdome. is that i know from you and from you the heist i know that i sometimes. we are dealing. with the environs if you go to didn't meet and talk to. keep. us up. thank you to

get the money. in college eileen cronin fell in love with andy a graduate student in economics i was in love very definitely for sight. although. i already had a boyfriend you know i immediately was drugged or you know her very own intelligence. her wit we moved in together. and we got pregnant very quickly. 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 berlin and i 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 alter sound technician zoomed in right away found foot one foot blew it up took a picture and wrote footlights and then other foot hands fingers and. i was crying and all the intern 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.

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what is the excuse as to you months and again also a lot of principles and values. medical use leaks laws leave. when you. doesn't preclude the biggest who was most of a book called this a bug. it's

going strong still it's a big scene i mean there's. just too little. when his first. why sandy became pregnant alvin law was terrified about what the future held when i saw him come out of there with two arms and. two halves of the five little fingers on. 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. and i do it again. going back 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 teach him to play frisbee impeachment to throw you know i mean all those things that you want to have a care if yours do. you 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 arms don't 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. he's big he was a little that. you know i miss that little boy sometimes but that's not how life works right now is a normal regular person he's got the same regular personalities nothing really wrong about it and you just have to step in knowing you can't just judging by the

way he looks what he brings and what he gives is much more so than anything i could bring you know he he gives great you know fatherly advice he's 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 louise haven't been very well and went to a christmas card and come down and had a loan i think the spark reignited his is the best way to describe it he kissed me goodbye and butterflies were. i was floating on on a cloud and he told his wife he was leaving. she helped impact all. and then he moved danny reading together sent.

to live out of other an understanding with the two of them it's really weird that we cannot on their own and you guys wouldn't know what i'm talking about you don't about right now straight away what you're going to go with a lot of the head or a mannerism you pick up you know a little more if you just pick up on it what it is though that sticks then you know it really is really fascinating we communicate here we go there without even talking. and i think we all think we were made for it to that we are. i remember thinking for twenty years all 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 alan introduce him to out of a future wife. sitting in the audience one day that conference was the first time i heard him speak in it actually believe tonight 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 that was the beginning of the joy that ended in the ring on that 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. right. he had lighted his leather 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 you know me get it there i don't stop traffic. you know you don't really care us there really has. a lot of. lows just like anybody else. getting better and. better. work 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's second and then i had her and those three elements of my life a bit 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 net through case melbourne woman lynette rowe is suing the drugs manufacturer green until the company wanted

the. 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 it done in court have to move to germany for the next five years so we had. incremental as a defendant's grants how have this never given never admit a thing never considered fought to the bitter end distillers took a much more compassionate sensible way to approach which was once convinced of the strength of the climb i settled with when good intel didn't post sent we had to get up and fight they'd stay there every day in court where the incredible damage they grow into adults didn't to me none of them 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 it off really dramatically transform the rose law grin and refused to pay a cent of the multi-million dollar settlement the two months later held a press conference so it could apologize to its victims for the first time in fifty years the other way no it's because women surely go this first longish to victory in front managed to mention. that doesn't obviously have to sell out their apologized for some. reach out to us or. they are never apologized for the suffering their coast. and they pay for that you know for their wrong it was no eclipse it quality comes from the heart. their apology came from their lawyers it is the n.h.

was a long as it was this size and just when i should go into the in year six i was taught f.m. they couldn't have gone into some of the chalk we had to get up and fight aids day and day every day in court where the incredible damage they've grown to or don't do . to me many of them won't go. 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 vets family's tosin a 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. i did not only want the money i want the revanche. i want the revenge you know they they kill two feist's thousand children they are

they mate another five thousand children slice little bowl they make the life of ten thousand parents also young they are responsible. for. going cell no longer makes them in the mind and continues to deny most little mind is outside germany any compensation no survivors feel they have received an acceptable apology. refused 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 left recy unfortunately it is mostly used in countries that often despairing dramatic development only really going to disease i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical current time to sit down and talk.

and that it through the sky. and i'm glad to get that all the data that will go and visit me and add to the money add that one of my living to get there. did it and then they do it now and that is out there on my it is i'm up to a mile out of there and i think after i got a loss i laugh a lot about how the now growing starting somewhere but i don't but it does.

sippin out of them out so out of a moderate pool of. doubt about them. yes by the way to really. get that they did do something so yep and after seven. days of it i. do believe that's an olympic film and a look. at the. in the stories that shaped the week could donald trump take center stage at the united nations general assembly in new york making one bold claim after another also ahead

. i recall saying that the label assaulted me could someday be on the u.s. supreme court wifey only my name has been totally and permanently destroyed an emotional.