Hello Wonderful Quadzilla Sam Friends, Family and Fans! The calendars are finally done! Below is the basic information about them organized into FAQs.
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Lately, I’ve gotten a lot of feedback and questions about many different things in my life. So here’s a quite eclectic selection of the most popular topics people have asked for updates about in my life.
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We all know disability is a difficult topic to approach. There’s a lot of nuances of etiquette that aren’t very widely known… I’ll write a few of the most popular ones here and hope they will pique your interest and possibly reshape your thinking and disability etiquette approach.
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I have three fun updates for you all this week, so let’s jump right into it! Drumroll, please! (I choose to believe you all thundered a harmonious makeshift drumroll in unison)…
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Fan-boying over track surfaces aside, an interesting part of my week involved heat chamber testing for upcoming events like Tokyo 2020. It’s forecasted to be rather toasty when we compete over there next year!
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As an elite athlete, people focus on our physical achievements and the strenuous training it takes to live this life and accomplish these goals…Therefore, this week, I want to talk to you all about my own experiences with how being an athlete can be taxing on your mental well-being.
Questions around life with a disability and as a para athlete are always surrounded with taboos. People are never sure if a question is appropriate to ask or how to, so they often don’t ask and just wonder…I think one of the ways I can give back is to be able to use my personal experiences, vulnerability and honesty to answer some of these.
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But now, over five and a half years later, I thought the poor soul that had originally inquired deserved a proper answer…
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Looking at SCIs and disability as something that needs to be overcome perpetuates the stigma that living with a disability makes you a second-class citizen that should always be striving to return to “normal”.
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…when I see these kids making new friends, keeping fit madly pushing up and down the court and evolving into these confident humans it really drives home all the reasons why we started Parallel Sports all those years ago.