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Q1. What are the challenges that you face living with cerebral palsy?
Isabella: “The challenges are getting people to understand what I can achieve.”
“You don’t need to help me over everything, I can do some things on my own.”
“And I also face discrimination, it’s not very often, but when I do it’s people coming up saying what happened, what’s wrong, which is okay except asking it in a more sensitive manner would be great.”
Chip: “I’m not entirely sure I mean at break I’m a lot slower than the other people.”
Ferris: “When I was younger it was difficult as I couldn’t take part in sports because of my limited mobility. It affected my ability to socialise with my friends, Moving around requires a bit more effort as well. Some things I can’t do like I struggle with getting my splints on. I have to have help with that but I don’t really wear my splints anymore.”
Q2. How has Whoopsadaisy helped you?
Isabella: “Whoopsadaisy helped me a lot with developing my physical skills and social skills. I think the 12+ group is great except sometimes it does not deliver but most of the time it does which is good.”
Chip: “Probably with helping me walk and get stronger and meeting other people with disabilities.”
Ferris: “It’s helped me greatly. It’s helped me build up the ability to walk. The conductive education that has helped me build up the ability to walk better than I could have done if I hadn’t gone to Whoopsadaisy.”
“I’ve met some lovely people as well. The people here are really nice.”
“It’s also helped me with my work experience (shoutout to Charlie, George and Evangeline.)”
Q3.What piece of advice would you give to someone younger living with cerebral palsy?
Isabella: “Take every day as it comes. You will never fail if you take yourself up to succeed so just take it one day at a time.”
Chip: “Stay active.”
Ferris: “Just focus on the positives and don’t focus on the things that you can’t do, focus on the things that you can do. Some people have different levels of disability but there will always be things you can do even if it doesn’t feel like it sometimes.”
Q4. What makes you happy?
Isabella: “Horse riding, swimming, going to school, having friends.”
Chip: “I love Japanese things, the design of Japanese architecture is also cool. Cheese is my favourite food.”
Ferris: “Just socialising with friends. I like swimming as well. I like lots of stuff. I like playing games.”
Q5. Describe Whoopsadaisy in 3 words.
Each interviewee provided 3 words, we combined them into a word cloud, below.
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