well if you don't win the little siad. that would you be. so i walk into. my own body i have a good body. allen law found in self in the public limelight then he became this province a spokesman for the handicapped children. not. least . over the years alvin will make appearances on telephones across the country. one thing going to. look. a. lot better than other people. because

a lot of handicappers. people get it wrong. they look at alvin law and 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 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 it is i do thank. you 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 i did friends i had too much fun and if you're like me and my

friends you drive around in that 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 i couldn't get the stupid. and i wanted the stupid wrong one for one night stand but that i never achieved she was wearing glasses i didn't notice. but i found my now why youth when she was sixteen and. maybe you call it a lack of opportunity but i'm staying with here. 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 equally to get behind the wheel and do our best. driving instructor to never have a shot tonight save. somebody. the test. was exactly the same as everyone else there's no difference they came so natural it's not be driving. me most of my life and. 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 know it depend on people to take care of you don't have to worry about. taking a bus or using your cam and it was really just about trying to figure it out. anyway i just love driving when i got a lot of different things about to do. most people don't consider the power of my mind and i my mind is very powerful tool and it get into it interjects 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 as altos leaving true for the sick so to meet on the phone from bitches about him and so much for to so much 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 and i'm going 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 unfiltered 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 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 your 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 might go. 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. alan travels over one hundred thousand miles a year on his own but after thirty years on the road his body is starting to wear 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'm at ease there you go

oh thank you boston 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 . i still travel 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 job that you five minutes. and then it goes. in germany. had to overcome his lifetime aversion to other children 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 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. funny 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 sighted this was really big time we were fighting i think for me for also as a lender miters but also for the public some say. the energy change. eco 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 that in. his defining for media and for media heist i know that i sometimes. we don't deal. with the environs if you go to didn't meet and talk to. keep. us up. thank the us 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 are you nervous and 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 the little mind 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 zoom dan 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 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. very soon you'll.

know you don't accept the school just a little dust on the right to be a little it's. child's play. and i don't buy the stuff i love me a lot of bad why doesn't somebody know how does know it's a mask you never know what's happening and what they're shooting with vertica. mistrust out of the. love of.

money you must be just thinking of that into you but i'm addicted to sit with your middle class and in the muslims all these clear when the. when you. present it it would look at the distance to the book the movie about.

trust in school students and it's. just a little. 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 have five little fingers on. i didn't care what brand it was at all or if it was a she or he it didn't matter. it was just the most tremendous feeling my son. i knew it. we know.

it all back i worried a lot about how it was going to play ball with i was going to maybe try teaching you know what it's all about teach him to play frisbee impeachment to throw all you know i mean all those things that you want to have to carry years do. we don't have to have arms to be a father. you don't need arms to love. you don't you arms to be there you don't need 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. and that surprised me. the tears i don't i'm not sad i'm just. as big he was a little that. i miss that little boy sometimes but that's not how life works right he's a normal regular person he's got the same regular personalities nothing really wrong

about it and just after the step to knowing he 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 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 louis being very well and kind to a christmas card and calm down and said alone i think the spark reignited if the best way i could describe it he kissed me goodbye and bust of flies. i was sort of floating 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.

politico did up an 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 now try to weigh what you pointed out you know you cannot of the head or a mannerism you pick up you know but the 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 would communicate he would go there without even talking. and i think we i think we were made for it with that we wanted. our member thinking twenty years old divorced god 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 who was sitting in the audience one day that conference was the first time i heard him speak in it i 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 melted. 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 that ring going on in the still there today. you can't even describe it just like all these years of anxious and frustration just melted away in five minutes. you still write.

he had lighted his 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 you know me get it there i don't stop traffic. you know you don't really care us are down. the. lows just like anybody else because he's getting better and. it's getting better. 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 . in australia. with the british company that bought and still is where co-defendants in

a multi-million dollar class action suit centered on the next row case melbourne woman lynette rowe is suing the drugs manuf. going into the company wanted the case heard in germany where it's never successfully but 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 dying court have to move to germany for the next five years so we had. a grin tells a defendant's grins how have this never given never admit a thing never considered fought to the bitter end of the still was 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 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 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 transformed the rose law grin and refused to pay a cent of the multi-million dollar settlement but 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 you aren't sure to go to this your first chance to get a longish two victory in front managed to mention. so it doesn't obviously have to sell out their apologized for some. reach out to us all. they are they 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. comes from the heart. their apology came from their lawyers

it was the n.h. was a longish talk with the size of just them and us adults is even. f.m. they couldn't have gone into song and chalk 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 need them have them go. get intel is still a privately owned company the votes family owns it to die just as it did in ninety eight 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 suppose i did not only want the money i want the revanche.

i want the rivera she you know they they kill feist's thousand children yeah they made a lot of five thousand children slice miserable they make the life of ten thousand parents also. they are responsible they should pay for. themselves no longer makes them in the mind and continue to deny most 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 leprosy unfortunately it is mostly used in countries that often do not enforce rigorous controls and regulation as a result the little babies are still. tragically

there seems to be no limits to the thalidomide disaster. yeah.

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and that. i like the idea that i. had to get that. and that to the mind the one the money the two. that it. didn't get the money and that is out there in this i'm up to a mile out of there and i think after. a lot about how the now there are only so far in time it went on but it was a little. supernova down mine so out of a moderate pool of. you that was out of i would have. to really. be so

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