#cerebral palsy

Watching this video makes me look forward to Samuel Habit’s upcoming full documentary about disability.

Jerk is back!

‘Meet Tim. He has cerebral palsy. And he’s awful. He knows he makes people uncomfortable - because he does it on purpose.’

Starring Tim Renkow, Rob Madin, Lorraine Bracco and Sharon Rooney. Sharon plays Ruth, Tim’s (supposed) carer.

The full second series of Jerk is now available on iPlayer.

sharon_rooney: "That’s a wrap for this trio of Jerks

A couple years older but absolutely not wiser

-Tim, thank you for trusting me.

- Rob, thank you for letting me be mean to you.

-thank you for both for putting up with me

So much said in the unsaid but thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! Here’s to team JERK2 xx"

Sharon on Instagram, 1 May 2021.

Tim Renkow, Sharon Rooney and Rob Madin will be back with series 2 of Jerksoon!

When your personal trainer is a Paralympian…

Series 2 of Jerk is now available on iPlayer.

Jeremie Thomas is an amazing, 32 year old, wheelchair basketball player and musician from Pompano Beach, a city in the Southern part of Florida.

Before he was born, his mother was involved in a car accident. As a result of this, Jeremie was born prematurely, weighing just two pounds and eight ounces. After delivery, he was diagnosed with both spina bifida and Cerebral Palsy. Because of this, Jeremie has been completely paralyzed from his waist down for all his life and he never had any feeling in his legs.

Despite his premature birth, Jeremie grew up in excellent health and his upper body developed exceptionally well.

Jeremie never let his disability stop him and he developed an interest in sports and music at an early age.

Jeremie always liked to play all kinds of games with his friends and he didn’t shy away from a game of American football in the local park. Around the age of 12, Jeremie was picked to play on a friend’s team and scored the game-winning “hail mary” (long pass) touchdown. In awe of what they had all witnessed, his friends cheered in excitement and chanted “WHEELCHAIR MOSS, WHEELCHAIR MOSS…”, referring to Jeremie’s favorite football player, Randy Moss.

Around the age of 18, Jeremie started playing wheelchair basketball for the Miami Heat Wheels. Already at the first training, he impressed the coach with his ability to move in his chair along with the ball. He also recognized his speed, toughness, and aggressive defense. After playing Division III wheelchair basketball for three years (and loving every minute of it), he was recruited by the Oklahoma State University Spokes , giving him the opportunity to take his game to the Collegiate level. After playing for two years in Oklahoma, Jeremie returned to his home team, the Miami Heat Wheels, for whom he competed ever since.

In 2016, Jeremie was also featured in the award-winning documentary “The Rebound - A Wheelchair Basketball Story,” which portrays “his” team, the Miami Heat Wheels.

Besides his activities on the basketball court, Jeremie is an aspiring musician who writes catchy, witty rap songs and regularly performs at a local nightclub.

If you’d like to know more about Jeremie, you can check out his Instagram page right here or you can visit his Facebook page by clicking the link down below ⬇️

Jeremie “Phenom” Thomas

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Help fundraise Gelsey’s travel journey, organized by Gelsey Garcia

Gelsey is a beautiful 25 year old girl from California with cerebral palsy. Unfortunately, she’s a bit in a rough spot right now.

If you’d like to help Gelsey out, please take a moment to read her story. Any donation, whether large or small, would be greatly appreciated. If you can’t make a donation, just sharing this message would also be really helpful

Thanks ❤️

Ingrid Nogueira is a stunning, 26 year old singer, composer and model from Foz do Jutaí, a small town in the Brazilian state of Amazonas.

Ingrid has been a wheelchair user for all her life because of Congenital Muscular Dystrophy(CMD). In Ingrid’s case, the condition left the muscles around her pelvis without any strength or function. As a result of this, she has never been able to walk, stand, or sit upright independently. She also has a serious deformity in her spine because her pelvis could never support the weight of her upper body.

Every once in a while, Ingrid’s condition surely comes with some challenges, but Ingrid has an exceptionally positive attitude so she isn’t really bothered by these issues. She does admit though that she has been very lucky that her condition isn’t in it’s progressive state anymore and that her upper her body isn’t affected at all. This allows her to live completely independent of others. She is also very happy that she can use a manual wheelchair, which is something she really likes because it accentuates her independency and makes it a lot easier for her to travel as it is much smaller and lighter than an electric wheelchair.

Ingrid has always been a very outgoing person and a good student who has lots of hobbies. She’s very passionate about music, is a gifted guitar player and a beautiful singer. Besides that, she loves fashion, photography and regularly works as a model. In her spare time, she loves spending time with friends and family, visit concerts and going to the beach.

If you’d like, you can check out Ingrid’s Instagram page right here or you can follow her on Facebook by clicking on the link down below!

Ingrid Nogueira Ofc

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Please submit photos, videos, illustrations, visual posts that show your real life, every day experience of the world as a disabled person. Whatever that may be! It can be anything from mundane every day things, your fashion, your selfies, your food habits, the things you enjoy doing, to the adventures you go on, basically anything anyone would ever share about themselves. It doesn’t have to be a 100% positive experience, though, as that is not real life. Any emotion, any experience. I’m interested in presenting what it is like for disabled people to live their lives.

Photos, videos etc. should probably include you, a part of you, or your actual Point of View to be a true depiction of you and your experience. They should also be clear, the subject matter should be recognizable, and relatively interesting to look at (if not downright hilarious commentary on the mundaneness of living life as a human being). If we want this project to make a difference it should be something that all kinds of people want to look at.Let’s burst out of our echo-chamber and refuse to be ignored!

Whatever else, you should be presenting yourself and your experience how YOU want to be presented. This is about both education and empowerment. I’m not here to dictate how you depict your life and what “Disability Is Normal” means for you.

No photos or videos of disabled people that are not you, please, unless it is a group shot that includes you and you are also disabled.

If you know a disabled person who wants their experience to be shared as part of this project please have them submit. If they are not physically able to submit, then please message me with a copy of their explicit consent - this would be either in physical signed form (a photo of a signed note), a video of them consenting, or a voice recording. A simple YES answer to a ‘do you want this to be shared on Disability is Normal’ - a physical nod, or thumbs up etc. is good enough for me if the person is non-verbal.

I want to try and be inclusive as is absolutely possible, but this is a place for us to be represented exactly how we want to be. These are our voices!

This is a project for all disabilities, all genders, all ethnicities, all skills, all lifestyles, all perspectives, all social classes and all disabled experiences. We are numerous, we are everywhere and we WILL be acknowledged <3

Winning combo of the day: cerebral palsy and cervicogenic vertigo.

AB people, it’s like living life on a roller coaster (or a tilt-a-whirl).