Evidence: Life from a wheelchair

1. What does Ashley do for a living?

She is a communications student. She spent her life between her university, her friend
and her family. If she hadn`t had aspirations to overcome her disability, she would not
have been happy.
2. How does her condition affect her daily activities and how does she deal with it?
She finds it difficult to write fast and for the extreme weather it takes Ashley a few
minutes more to go to classes in the snow. she has to deal with the guys who look at
her with fear, but she lets go with the flow.
3. What is her attitude towards life? Does she feel disabled from certain activities?
Her attitude is positive in front of life. She feels able to swim and she leaves people
high and dry, because many people believe that she can`t do it. She feels able to
transfer to her bed. If she didn`t have that positive attitude toward life, she would have
failed in all the situations that come up daily. She feels incapacitated to do certain
activities like running, she doesn`t know what that feeling is.
She would want to know what it feels like to walk or run. If she hadn`t been lucky
enough to have her parents by her side, she wouldn`t have been able to learn to do
many other things.
4. How would your life be different if you were handicapped and had to use a
wheelchair? What would be different for you?
If I had a disability and had to use a wheelchair, my life would be different in aspects
such as: emotional changes because it could be something unexpected, depression
because it would be something I am not used to, I could not walk, jog, exercise in the
gym, dancing and I couldn't do my daily activities like I usually do because I couldn't
move smoothly from one place to another.
5. How do you react when you have to interact with a handicapped person?
When I interact with a handicapped person I react in a way friendly. I try to be very nice
with that person so that it can have a great time and it can feel very happy.
6. How can you contribute to improve the life of handicapped people?
I can contribute to improve the life of handicapped people helping them feel happy,
have a good time, giving advices so they can feel okay and being very friendly with
them.