They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can lead a happy life in a wheelchair. I know I've helped handicapped people, because I've received many comments.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As a wheelchair user, you can't move about freely. That's the only thing that bothers me a little. When I'm in the Euro Group in Brussels, colleagues who want to talk to me have to come to me. But I hope they know that this has nothing to do with arrogance.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.
You know that the world is a better place when people can come up to a severely disabled person and say: 'Well done. You are an inspiration.'
To grow up in the neighborhood of handicapped people was an important experience for me. I learned back then to treat them in a very normal way.
It feels amazing to be a role model for people with and without disabilities.
It's just been so heartwarming to see my clothes on people in wheelchairs and people needing physical support.
I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.
We find that other employees are very enthusiastic about their fellow crew members who have disabilities-or what they previously thought of as disabilities.
For lots of us, disabled people are not our teachers or our doctors or our manicurists. We're not real people. We are there to inspire.
People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?'
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