Looking Forward or Looking Back? With Cerebral Palsy

 

Looking Forward or Looking Back?

Ok so It's the 7th of January when I am writing this and some horrific events happened yesterday which you’ve probably seen either on the internet or the news. It shows the struggle as a different race, religion or any disability, such as cerebral palsy.

Are you struggling to mentally change your view of cerebral palsy?

Are you a person with cerebral palsy and struggling to think about it? Do you have the feeling of anger, self-pity?

Are you ok with the condition and wish others would get you?

Don’t worry about this challenge, I have cerebral palsy so I know what you mean.

I was born with cerebral palsy and this is what this blog is about how I deal with it. I am writing how to show people that having cerebral palsy does not define you. Or the people you know who have cerebral palsy and how you are around them.

Once you have finished reading this you will be able to understand to some extent:

1. How to deal with cerebral palsy as a person with the condition.
2. Explain how you want to be respected as a person with cerebral palsy.
3. How to treat any person with cerebral palsy as a person rather than talk at someone.

Dealing with Cerebral Palsy as a person with the condition in all its forms.

• I said at the beginning of this post the most horrific event happened yesterday in the United States of America where the House of Congress was stormed by people who did not want the new President to come in. And preferred that the outgoing president stay in charge and discriminate against people of colour. And this has been happening for a long time regards everyone different in race, religion sexual orientation or disability. A few years ago this was the scene for people who wanted the Americans who needed Obamacare disabled being dragged from congress. And all they wanted was the ability to have the care that they need as they are human beings.

• You are one of them and it's ok to be frustrated at the cerebral palsy but you must not let the condition define you. Do not let people either define you through cerebral palsy either. Because you are worth everything. I do know what you mean though because I do suffer from letting cerebral palsy define me at times. And I hate it!!!

Showing how you want to be treated

• You are shopping and doing things for yourself and through the corner of your eye, you see someone staring at you. There are two ways to deal with it. These are either to ignore their looks and carry on with your day. Or go to the person and say something about your cerebral palsy.
• Ignoring the person will not get that person to learn about cerebral palsy as a condition. Yeah, I get it it's not easy in case they are the type of person who is abusive to you. But you know what it's their problem because you are worth it. You can say something like “I’m not drunk I was born like this! do you want to know more?” or if you are in a wheelchair you could do something relatable. But also it is how people perceive you as a person with a brain rather than someone who has a lower IQ. And it's not fair.
• You must say something. It's important to remember that cerebral palsy is not a condition that means that you have a low IQ. it's muscle reading messages from the brain and back again. Meaning it's motor skills, not intelligence. It can be caused by injury or at birth. So in the simplest form, it's brain damage in a part of the brain where you control your body not what you think.

Treating People with Cerebral Palsy as anyone else

• People with the condition of cerebral palsy are no different to you. Yes, they walk differently. Yes, they talk differently. But they don’t have a low IQ. Treat us as people who are the same as you
• Just because we walk or look different doesn’t mean we are any different to you.

So what now!

Where do we all go from here?

Since starting to write this post yesterday the whole of the government of the USA, with exception of the president, declared that the people who stormed the building as homegrown terrorists. Because they were so wrong in what they did. Yes, violence is so not the answer but neither treating someone any different from yourself. Whether you have cerebral palsy or not.

What do you want?

Do you want to be in the past when cases of cerebral palsy were in care homes? Or do you want cases of cerebral palsy to be living in the community where even if we have limited abilities we still have some kind of value?

In my opinion!

Everyone in this world is to be treated the same no matter what. It shouldn’t matter if we have cerebral palsy or not. If you want to know more about cerebral palsy then check out more posts on my site.

4 Things You Can Learn from Studying Makeup of Princess Leia

 So it's May the Fourth. "May the Force be With You" as the saying goes.

What are you doing in this unprecedented time? Are you having an impromptu Star Wars Party without the costumes?

What about the simple makeup look that Princess Leia wears in the film "A New Hope"?

In the beginning, it was the seventies and there was nothing quite like it. George Lucas made a change in the world of the movie world. Yet makeup-wise nothing is as quite as iconic as Carrie Fisher's makeup and hair.

Carrie Fisher was the daughter of one of the old school Hollywood Power couples of the 50s, Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher. While also being a comedian and actress She also was the mother of Billie Cathrine Lourd who is in the later star wars movies.

Carrie died of cardiac arrest on 26th December 2016.

In the first scene that you see Princess Leia, she is wearing heavy black eyeliner yet neutral eyes with a strong pink blush and nude lipstick.

In the next scene, we see her being held by Darth Vader and the makeup she is wearing neutral greys as a subtle eyeshadow with pale blush and pink lips

In other scenes, she is wearing subtle dark shades of shadows with brightness with the use of lipsticks. Due to the darkness of the story, the makeup lightens the mood a little.

The final scene is when she is wearing orange, brown eyes with again a neutral blush and bright lipsticks as it is when she is giving medals to Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, and Chewbacca.

These looks are very simply done yet can be done badly. 

Chose the right tones that fit your eye colour as well as your skin tone. Otherwise, they can come across as stark and shocking which is not what I perceive the makeup was mean to do in the movie.

Make sure you remember to have fun.

What is Broken

 When I wrote this originally in 2019 my choice of candidate lost and the country picked Mr Boris Johnson. And as this goes up again on my new provider, USA has decided again after what seems to be a lengthy battle.

The Cracks

I had been taking a bit of a break and helping with local issues. While helping my local candidate get into parliament here in the UK. Thursday the country goes to the vote. 

I'm not here to discuss the politics of any country. But this country, the UK, has become broken because of the decisions that everyone has made and what the leaders have done with the decisions. 

Yet it is not just the country that is broken. The whole very existence of the world is broken. 

The damage is all over the place. You may disagree with me on that. On the other hand, you may agree with me. I see the damage through all types of things.

The Chips

The chips are the individual cracks that make up the world as a whole. So this is racism, religious views, political views and other opinions that people disagree with. From this though despite the different opinions we are all exactly the same inside. 

There are many colours in this world
Pinks
Brown's 
Yellows
Just to name a few
And yet these are the colours 
People are called

from a poem I wrote.

We all have bones, skin, blood and muscles. Wither you have brown, white, pink or dark skin. 

So everyone is the same inside. 

But it's not just these issues. It is almost impossible not to have some kind of discrimination and corruption no matter how big or small it is. 

The Story of Us

Does this mean that we have to be the same as what we have had in the past? 

I think not. The actor Morgan Freeman has an amazing show on #Netflix called #TheStoryOfUs and in the show, he discusses what has happened throughout history and what is happening now! 

It is worth watching because you are shown what can and must be done to protect the future of the planet and the life of your great-grandchildren and their families after them. 

It shows political history and problems as well as love and freedom of speech, information and being. Along with peace international. 

If you want the poem that the quote comes from then click below

What a mix

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