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"DESPITE CEREBRAL PALSY”
Join us for a conversation with Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist) tonight at 7pm on Asaase Radio 99.5

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As a child, I love my superheroes and heroines and all that. Growing up, I am a person, who instead of complaining of stuff not being done, If I can do it, I do it myself- Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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As it is, with the superheroes, you usually go and fight the bad guys. What is unique is that, she uses her clutches for her power. - Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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For me, I use that as a direct storyline for children who has to use assisted devices to feel empowered using those assisted devices. - Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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For those of us, who grew up using the assisted devices our whole life, there are certain times that although it may not make sense logically, it help you to be a bit more independent. - Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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If a little girl in a wheelchair or using crutches, sees a superhero using her clutches to fight the bad guy, at least she will be empowered and proud to use those assisted devices. Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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Obviously, it appears in one’s life when you ask, why do I have to use this and can’t be like everyone else. - Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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I go anywhere, people look at me because of my condition, because of the assisted devices I am using - Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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We are not in a disability-friendly country, so it makes it even more difficult to move around when you are using any of those devices - Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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Look at my whole life, I'm used it. When I go somewhere and people are looking at me, I ask why are people looking at me. - Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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Sometimes it gets irritating, they just don’t look at you, they stare at you very rudely and I mean like if you haven’t seen anybody with this condition before, at least approach me and ask me something. - Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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I rather use that opportunity to educate you than have you stand at a distance and stare at me. - Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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Cerebral Palsy is a condition. It’s a brain damage to the cerebellum of the brain which can control the total motor movements of the body, once that area is damaged, it affects the way you move. - Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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It affects your walking, your hand movements and sometimes your speech, your earing, your sight depending on the place that actually was damaged - Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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For me, it’s total frequency as well as to an extent, a little bit of the general. It’s easier for me talking to someone whose lips I can see because if I can’t hear the person, I can read the lips- Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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There are others who don’t have any hearing problem, there are others who don’t have any sight problem, it all depends on the part that was damaged - Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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I love music. When I am working, music makes my brain run faster. I am somebody who doesn’t like a certain genre, I like songs - Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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It began before I was one year old because I was diagnosed at the age of one. It was caused by something called rhesus incompatibility in the blood groups of my parents. - Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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There is something called the rhesus factor, which when the mother is negative and the father positive causes some imbalance. - Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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For those of us with cerebral palsy, we use four times energy to do basic things - Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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I wasn’t brought up to feel I was different, I just knew there were things I could not do. - Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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I capitalise on my strength. By age three and four. I knew I had a condition, but when I grew up is when I knew what brain damage was. - Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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I was brought up to speak my mind before I could speak, I had to go through speech therapy so I was encouraged to speak my mind and be straight forward as I could. - Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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I created ‘Kamsa’ because I didn’t see a superhero that represented me, in response to the lack of diversity in the superhero world. - Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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When you have a child with a disability, you don’t know how far the child will go so you live each day as it comes. - Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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When I came back to Ghana, I was still being homeschooled. Then at age two, it was decided that I should go to school so I can socialise with other children - Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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In the first term exam, I had 100% in almost all the papers and everyone was shocked. It was really a good sign of good things to come. - Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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Right now, I hear stories of men who run away when they have children with a disability but I am glad my father didn’t do that - Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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I am a Christian and I believe in God. I don’t think if I had a choice, I would choose to live my life any other way. I believe my purpose here is to make an impact – Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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You go to the church, they see you and they immediately call you to the front, pray for you and nothing happens. – Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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I think in this country; people don’t take into consideration how people feel emotionally by calling you to the front with everyone watching. – Farida Bedwei (Software Engineer & Dis/Ability Activist)

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