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File Under “So What’s Your Excuse?”: Girl Without Hands Wins Penmanship Award
When you find yourself dwelling on who or what is holding you back in life, think of 7 year-old Annie Clark, a first-grader who recently won a penmanship award established for children with either a “cognitive delay or intellectual, physical or development disability.” Annie, a Chinese adoptee, was born without hands.
Annie’s father, Tom Clark, described his daughter’s other abilities to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
“Annie has always been very, very determined, very self-sufficient in dressing herself and feeding herself,” Mr. Clark said. “She can ride a bike. She swims. She is just determined that there’s nothing she can’t do.”
Her father said she also types on a keyboard and uses an iPod Touch with no difficulties.
Man, do I feel like a lazy jerk right about now.
[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: First-grader without hands wins penmanship award]
Filed under: Abilities, Amazian Jr., Annie Clark, Asian Adoptees, Awards, Chinese Adoptees, Disabilities, Girl Without Hands Wins Penmanship Award, Perseverance, What's Your Excuse?
File Under "Stories That Make Me Feel Like an Asshole"
Hey peeps. I’m reporting live from Hong Kong, where I just landed and am so discombobulated from the time change that I don’t know my ass from my face. Which brings me to this story I recently read about a waitress from Chongqing, China, Wang Fang, who was born with HER FEET BACKWARDS but refuses to receive a disability pension or look at her condition as a handicap.
The Daily Mail wrote about the 27 year-old:
Wang, who has a five year-old son with normal feet, said: “I can walk as well as anyone else, and even run faster than them. I’m like everyone else – except of course that I put my shoes on backwards.”
Okay. So now I feel jetlagged and like a total jerk. Guess it’s time for dim sum!
Filed under: Brave People, Disabilities, Does This Change the Meaning of Ass Backwards?, Feeling Like an Asshole, Jerks, Jetlag
