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A man born with physical disabilities so severe his head is Upside-down has defied the odds to become an inspirational public speaker.

Claudio Vieira de Oliveira, 37, was born with his neck folded back on itself, as well as badly deformed legs and almost no use of his arms and hands. Doctors told his mother to stop feeding him as a newborn as they believed he had no chance of survival. But Claudio from Monte Santo, Brazil, has overcome his extreme disadvantages to graduate as an accountant and become a public speaker. Continue...



"Since I was a child I've always liked to keep myself busy and work - I don't like to depend totally on other people. I do a bit of accounting, research for clients and consulting. I have learned to turn on the TV, pick up my cell phone, turn on the radio, use the internet, my computer - I do it all by myself." he said.

Claudio types with a pen held in his mouth, operates phones and a computer mouse with his lips and has specially made shoes that allow him to move around town. His determined independence saw him succeeding at school and qualifying as an accountant from the State University of Feira de Santana.

When Claudio was born, doctors told his mother Maria Jose he would not be able to survive. Maria Jose said:

"People started saying 'the baby is going to die' because he could barely breathe when he was born. Some people would say: 'Don't feed him, he is already dying'. But there's only happiness now. Claudio is just like any other person - that's how he was raised in this house. We never tried to fix him and always wanted him to do the normal things everyone else does. That's why he is so confident. He is not ashamed of walking around in the street - he sings and he dances."

At eight years old, Claudio, who had previously been carried everywhere, began to walk on his knees.

His family had to change the floor of the house so he could walk around without injuring himself.
Claudio's bed, plugs and lights had to be made lower so that he could do things for himself without asking for help.

He cannot use a wheelchair because of his unusual shape, making it hard for him to be independent outside the home - but he begged his mother to be allowed to go to school and learn with the other children. Doctors have recently diagnosed him with a rare condition called congenital arthrogryposis.

They believe he has multiple joint contractions in his legs and arms which mean they cannot extend properly. Claudio said:

"Throughout my life I was able to adapt my body to the world. Right now, I don't see myself as being different. I am a normal person. I don't see things upside-down. This is one of the things I always talk about in my interventions as a public speaker.

"Nowadays it's much easier to deal with the public, I'm not afraid of it anymore and I can say that I am a professional, international public speaker and that I receive invitations from all over the world."


Culled from UK Mirror

how is she doing now? hope u have contact 0800callebola

"The Fat girl ends up miserable year after year. The society has neglected the fuller woman. This has resulted to fat girls feeling depressed, left-out and downcast. The average big lady spends most of their years in solitude, angry at themselves, the society and even their shadow. Many are being laugh at, ridiculed, jilted, abused and sent back indoors where they are depressed and even get fatter. The society is such a big nightmare for this group of people which is saddening." Continue...

When they go for shopping which is a very beautiful and fun experience for almost every lady. But for the fat girl, it’s a rather sober experience. In many cases, sizes are deceptive to the extent that a size 12 dress will be tagged size 18. She has to through every cloth in the store before she finds what fits her. Sometimes, she ends up not seeing any flattering outfit. Again, the sadness begins.


Then she turns to her tailor to make a good dress for her. A beautifully styled dress she saw in a magazine page. The tailor makes it, it’s still not flattering. Sarcastically, the tailor says, “I find it difficult sewing for fat girls, it is too hard”. Again, the sadness begins.


Her soon-to-be-married best friend calls, “Wendy, will you be one of my bridesmaids”? “Don’t answer of course you will”. She is excited.“Will call you up later so we go choose the dresses with the other girls”. Her heart drops. Shopping bridesmaids with the other girls, she knows will be a huge nightmare because she is the “fat girl”. While shopping, The saleslady says, "We don't have your size, so here's the biggest we do have," and she gives it a try. Of course, it never fits. Her underarm fat is spilling over, her back fat is folding over the waist, and she can't get the thing to slip over her butt. But it looks beautiful on everyone else! And she is left feeling guilty for being more than a handful. Again, the sadness begins.


At NYSC orientation camp. The fat girl is handed her dress bag. She opens it. The kaki trouser is as small as a size 6’s whereas she is a size 18. “Ma’am, dis kaki is too small for me, can I get a larger size”, she says to the platoon mistress. The lady murmurs, “Exchange with someone else”. (lol, we’ve all experienced this). And she looks around, no one has her size. Most of other corpers, she may ask will reply saying, “NOO!!! I no carry orobo size”. Everyone laughs at her. Again, the sadness begins.


Every fat lady go through post-traumatic dress disorder. It is the condition that occurs when a person, usually female, feels disappointed and traumatized while leaving a clothing store. It could happen when she views old photographs and asks herself "What the hell was I wearing" It could also be the traumatic stress she feels between the moment she post a picture on the Internet and the moment somebody likes it or responds. Fat people go through this stress all the time and the society is not being fair at all. 80% of Heart-related illnesses which fat people suffer are because they spend most of their years depressed, not just about their size but because of social prejudicial.

the last time i checked non of the principal officers has been appointed, so how will the school resume by sept?

;Dmy ex came to beg me that I should take her back ....on a more serious note I gained admission for my MSC and my boss gave my permission....i go buy my car before the end of the year (amen)

the lady is playing with your intelligent, she don get pregnant before the incident. she just used that incident to cover up.......three weeks and she is having symptoms... broz wise upppppp

sunex: A year? she must b crazy,does she xpect u to stay for a year witout a chick?

she may be....... but she is still on the issue hoping i will agree to marry her

sunex: Dat i Can't say...I jus pray its not

bro, u beta move on wit ur life and see her as ur past...she might stil cum bck to beg u...

Check my own story i posted it and u wil see dat ur own is beta...but av moved on and she cums bck after a yr to beg...smh 4 her

chingydaboss: Tanx bro..
God is ur muscle
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amen!!! Urs is on d way

Are u sure dat she did nt cook d lie just to discharge u? I just told a lady that my parents said i cant marry her tribe so dat she can go away....this is just one of the trick to discharge

chingydaboss: Encouraging....
I must confess, I was depressed wen I received two unsuccessful test report..
Bt I know God has a plan..
I will jst allow him to plan my life..

More pple shud share their experiences..

dont be discouraged, my first text wit dragnet was terible, i scored 32%. No one to encourage me but i have to by myself. I do travel from ibadan to lag for text...most of the time i go and cum back dat same day which is very stresful infact most of it my parents were nt aware cos they dont want me to be traveling to lag cos of the bad road...i saw alot of accident on d road but i stil dont av option... Alot of on d road bus, lag to ibadan 300...job hurting is nt easy in 9ija so dont be DISCOURAGED!!!

chimeluiz: Your story is an encouragement to me in particular.
I am just about finishing my NYSC please do you have a format you used for your CV.
How were you applying for the jobs?
What was it that gave you leverage to be called for interview.


I would appreciate your suggestions.

May God bless the works of your hand

You can mail me:
chimezihebs at Gmail dot com


To avoid spammers

most of my application were thru dragnet and workforce except waec, funab, fed college of edu oyo and my present place of employment. Dragnet and workforce dont really need ur c.v what u need to do is to fill their online form and pray u are invited 4 test...but u must meet the requirement ooo. My God wil do ur own also

ikweremilitant: u dnt need to feel dat way.just believe dat ur travils then is a source of inspiration to alot of people.thumbs up

tnx bro.......rest is sweet after much labour.

I dont pray that anyone suffer the way i did but if anyone is facing the challenge i pray that the lord wil give hear to such person's supplication before this year runs out.

NiniArike: You sound as if you've made up your mind. Right?

not really, dat was why i came here to seek 4 advice

NiniArike: Do you still love her?? Do you see a better future with her?? Think twice Man. We Ladies can use emotion to get what we want.

love? Am indifferent....emotion? Dat is why i dont want to see her

i told her that she is not doing the assignment that we were given very well.......we were told to repeat the an assignment twice just because of her nonchalant attitute..... that is my offense ooooooooooo........

ladies in the house kindly advice

[quote author=Pinkyeyes]pls for how long were u unemployed?[/quo
..

for that one year she did not sent me.....

chingydaboss: U r truly a strong person.. I envy u, nd may u live to njoy d fruit of ur labour..

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Ariyke: Go to romance section for proper advice

NOTED but you can still drop your advise

ikweremilitant: guy u be man.and may u live long to enjoy the fruit of ur labour,amen

AMENNNNNNNNNNNN..... your comment made me cry......

I always avoid telling people all what i pass through when i was job hurting.......all is now story

tboy11: what were your actions and reactions according to her that made her break up last year?

i told her that she is not doing the assignment that we were given very well.......we were told to repeat the an assignment twice just because of her nonchalant attitute

hmmmmmmmm......

Their is this girl that we have been dating for almost five years in fact i met her parents three years ago and she also met my parents. Also her pastor had interviewed me on several occasion and we have started courtship according to the doctrine of her church. she has twice told me she is no longer interested in the relationship but i was able to convince her and she agreed. Around middle of last year she finally broke the relationship and she said no going back. Around middle of this year she sent her family member to start begging me that she want to come back to my life.

Prior to when we broke-up i noticed that she was using style to woo a guy and hoping the guy will agree but the guy neva give her consent, dont ask me how i know because well has ear...
when i asked her whey did she broke the relationship last year she said it is because of my action and reaction during courtship...i also asked why did she wants to come back she said because she discover that she loves me

i was able to discover that after she broke the relationship she met a guy and her mum when to pray about the guy and she was told that she should not marry the guy and that i am more preferable to the guy, dont ask my how i got this info walls has ear

i observed that she is desperate to marry, her siblings are getting married.........can this be also a reason she wants to come back?
MATURE MINDS KINDLY ADVICE, DOES SHE WORTH TAKING BACK??

Their is this girl that we have been dating for almost five years in fact i met her parents three years ago and she also met my parents. Also her pastor had interviewed me on several occasion and we have started courtship according to the doctrine of her church. she has twice told me she is no longer interested in the relationship but i was able to convince her and she agreed. Around middle of last year she finally broke the relationship and she said no going back. Around middle of this year she sent her family member to start begging me that she want to come back to my life.

Prior to when we broke-up i noticed that she was using style to woo a guy and hoping the guy will agree but the guy neva give her consent, dont ask me how i know because well has ear...
when i asked her whey did she broke the relationship last year she said it is because of my action and reaction during courtship...i also asked why did she wants to come back she said because she discover that she loves me

i was able to discover that after she broke the relationship she met a guy and her mum when to pray about the guy and she was told that she should not marry the guy and that i am more preferable to the guy, dont ask my how i got this info walls has ear

i observed that she is desperate to marry, her siblings are getting married.........can this be also a reason she wants to come back?
MATURE MINDS KINDLY ADVICE, DOES SHE WORTH TAKING BACK??

my observation

FROM THESE ANALYSIS YOU CAN TAKE SIDE IF WE ARE DEVELOPING OR UNDERDEVELOPED
In the Lewis model, the underdeveloped economy consists of two sectors:
a traditional, overpopulated rural subsistence sector characterized by zero
marginal labor productivity—a situation that permits Lewis to classify this as
surplus labor in the sense that it can be withdrawn from the traditional agricultural
sector without any loss of output—and a high-productivity modern
urban industrial sector into which labor from the subsistence sector is gradually
transferred.
One of the most forceful statements of the international-dependence school
of thought was made by Theotonio Dos Santos:
Underdevelopment, far from constituting a state of backwardness prior to capitalism,
is rather a consequence and a particular form of capitalist development
known as dependent capitalism. . . . Dependence is a conditioning situation in
which the economies of one group of countries are conditioned by the development
and expansion of others. A relationship of interdependence between two or
more economies or between such economies and the world trading system becomes
a dependent relationship when some countries can expand through selfimpulsion
while others, being in a dependent position, can only expand as a reflection
of the expansion of the dominant countries, which may have positive or negative
effects on their immediate development. In either case, the basic situation of dependence
causes these countries to be both backward and exploited. Dominant
countries are endowed with technological, commercial, capital and sociopolitical
predominance over dependent countries—the form of this predominance varying
according to the particular historical moment—and can therefore exploit them,
and extract part of the locally produced surplus. Dependence, then, is based upon
an international division of labor which allows industrial development to take
place in some countries while restricting it in others, whose growth is conditioned
by and subjected to the power centers of the world.

The best-known model of structural change is the one based largely on the
empirical work of Harvard economist Hollis B. Chenery and his colleagues, who
examined patterns of development for numerous developing countries during
the postwar period. (This approach also built on research by Nobel laureate Simon
Kuznets on modern economic growth of developed countries.)7 Their empirical
studies, both cross-sectional (among countries at a given point in time)
and time-series (over long periods of time), of countries at different levels of per
capita income led to the identification of several characteristic features of the development
process. These included the shift from agricultural to industrial production,
the steady accumulation of physical and human capital, the change in
consumer demands from emphasis on food and basic necessities to desires for
diverse manufactured goods and services, the growth of cities and urban industries
as people migrate from farms and small towns, and the decline in family
size and overall population growth as children lose their economic value and
parents substitute what is traditionally labeled child quality (education) for
quantity with population growth first increasing and then decreasing
in the process of development.

For the past 2 month I don't go to sunday service but only mid-service, is it a sin? is it bad? share your experience if u are in my shoe also

i met the lady on 2go... chai she fight lion pass this this lady, I had to run for my dear life oooo

time to resume my marijuana i left some month ago....... little wounder i no dey av pain for body, my girlfriends can testify to this

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