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Con-Vivencia | Romina Volpato | TEDxSunchales


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accident or birth that was the
question from a Mr. Remisero when he saw me
get on his auto birth I answered
and while I was settling in the
car seat this man that I do not
He stopped looking at me and said he canchera that
these
and if one year I told him
to which he kept looking at me and I
question do you believe in god
I look at it and I see it so worried
as afflicted as saying poor girl
I said quietly I’m fine one
may have a lot of problems but
just my disability was not what
at that time I was bothering
I suffered more for the love disappointments
that for something else
I have a disability I’m not
sick do not need to ask God or
the saints that heal me because they are
a healthy person
if I prayed a lot to san antonio so that
will send me the love of my life and if that
pray until I put it in penance when
I was not given the things
when I was born with spina bifida for
my parents was terrible to learn about
this
no father no mother is
prepared to receive this kind of
news
one day talking to my dad I asked
what did they feel when I was born
and he with tears in his eyes said to me
the world came down because it did not
We knew what to do or where to go
however we find where to go together
from that moment we were doing
I walk the three always the part as
until today that we are together
when I was a girl about me
disability with total naturalness
a girl arrived plus a daughter plus a
sister more
I discovered that I could do everything
what I wanted but there were things that I did not
I would like to make others by
example
walk without support
the first time I stopped with these
apparatus was when I was 6 years old
you know the happiness that I had
now I could go where I wanted
even in the classroom
I wrote stop was not going to be so
easy to sit
I remember that one afternoon I fell in the
schoolyard one of the many
falls that I had throughout my life
and the teachers who were in that place
At recess
they got scared and well they wanted to come to
help me get up and my aunt who was
teacher there told them to leave the she knows
get up alone and so I did I got up
how any boy gets up when
it falls but my way
the first time I felt different
it was my adolescence there I discovered that
there was something
I discovered that I had a disability
he was unaware of that
I noticed
in the look and in the treatment of the people
it was a difficult stage
hard where I just felt safe
with my family in my space
when he finished high school I had
to decide what to do
I had to project my life
but I was wondering where I was going
that I was going to be and because of my fears
I could not see myself anywhere other than
here in sunchales
and that’s why I decided to study
to be a teacher
a career that challenged me
gave opportunities to grow as
person
It was a difficult but beautiful stage
I could strengthen my self-esteem and it was
thanks to my students
thanks to them because when I entered
To the classroom
for that was the lady me
that love made me strong
they also made me strong some
trainers but for not believing in me
questioning my way of handling myself
in the classroom and my organizational capacity
I know that being a teacher is not blowing and
making a bottle is not easy, but
demands and opportunities have
that be for all
it was the acceptance of the boys
and the barriers that I had to face
in my career those that made me strong
and they gave me identity
and all thanks to all that
I lived
can you get my title
I received and I could and I started teaching
particular
and I also started in the world of
job
a world that terrified me but that I
I knew I had to face it
giving me
for what he wanted to do and not for what
the others told me that it was what
could do
I worked in an enterprise with
people with disabilities
also in the municipality and now
I’m working in Sancor insurance where
not only I am adapting but
also my environment
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still today there is much prejudice towards
people with disabilities because
others are often the ones you
make people believe and feel that disability
it is an obstacle when it is not
my story was not marked by
disability was marked by people
love of my parents of my brothers
of my family all that with the soul of
My friends are always with me
of my students from my classmates
work and it was also marked by
people who decided to see my legs
before me
if we saw the person first and not
his disability today we would not have to
be talking about inclusion but about
coexistence
particularly to me the word
inclusion I do not like because I do not
I need to include myself in a place to
belong
we all need everyone because the
diversity enriches us
and we go when we give ourselves forgiveness when
let’s realize this
everything will change
and we would respect the place that each
one occupies in this world thank you very much
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