There's Always A Way

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Today I brought you good news, no more bad news :) Today I'd like to talk about two kids who are doing wonderful things at a young age. One is a disabled boy.

Usually disabled or mentally ill people don't have the chance others have. It's sad but that's reality. I remember there was a mom in our running group with an autistic boy who was basically excluded by society because he was different. You know how difficult is for autistic people to deal with real world and life in general.

This group I was mentioning above used to organize community runs for disabled people. They had all kinds of special wheelchairs they could use plus group members were accompanying them and helping them finish the 800m race. It seems nothing but for them it meant the whole world.

This mother I was telling you about said her son is incapable of doing anything on his own (age 7 at that time), running was the only thing he was interested in and enthusiastic about. He could not speak, nor communicate in any way, he isolated himself from the world and got angry and agitated in a crowd. These running trainings were his world though. There he was able to connect with people, let them help him and was happy after each run. However, not everyone is fortunate to have an opportunity like this.

Maxim Abramov is a 10 year old Russian boy who has no legs. He lost both his legs when he was 18 months old, when his bed caught fire. Her mother was charged with neglect, this resulted in the boy being adopted. He grew up as being different from the other kids and imagine how many things he wasn't able to do over the years. Despite his disability, he is a skateboarder. Can you imagine someone skateboarding without legs? He does that.

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He got prosthetic legs but he thought it's easier to get around by using a skateboard. One day he met a skateboarding coach who saw potential in him. Max is hoping to participate in Paralympic Games one day.

His coach, Pavel Mushkin has uploaded a video with Max recently, that has caught skateboarding legend Tony Hawk's attention who has shared the video and Max has become famous all of a sudden.

This is a happy story and I'm glad he got the attention he deserves. I hope others will join in and help him anyway they can. With the determination like that he deserves to be happy.



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