Maira Valentina Diaz Salinas

*What does Ashley do for a living?

She is a Singer at the university where she studies general communication.

*How does her condition affect her daily activities and how does she deal with it?

It affects in being on time for general communication classes because it’s a little more difficult for
her to drive in her wheelchair so she can’t drive so fast, however, she tries to be at college fifteen
minutes before starting her general communicating classes

*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 loves people high and dry,
because many people believe she can’t do it. She feels able to transfer to her bed. If she didn’t
have the 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 the
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

*How would your life be different if you were handicapped and had to use a wheelchair? What
would be different for you? (Use mixed conditionals in the answer)

If I were handicapped and had to use a wheelchair my life would be different in aspects like: there
could be an emotional change because it could be something unexpected, so I could get depressed
because it can be something to what I’m not used to because there would be many different
things like I wouldn’t able to walk, jog, work out the gym, dance and I couldn’t move so fast from a
place to another place activities

*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 to that
person so that it can have a great time and it can feel very happy.

*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 an okay and being very friendly with them.