Shanequa: Your videos are amazing. I started watching them and then I'm just scrolling, scrolling, scrolling ...
Hannah, with the help of your honesty about cerebral palsy, how do you think it'll change how people see it?
Hannah: Hopefully, people will see that I have cerebral palsy, but cerebral palsy does not have me. By doing our TikToks, we hope that inclusion will become a part of everyday life.
Lucy: How does a blind girl get around parked cars on the pavement?
Shanequa: Why did you even start making TikTok videos?
Lucy: I saw that Learn on TikTok was actually trending and I thought, right, I'm going to show the world that being blind is really cool and I'm going to tell everyone what I do in my day-to-day that makes the world really accessible to me.
Becky: I think the aim was to just have fun, but then as we grew bigger we realised there was a need for people to see how disabilities are in society. So I think we just then did it to raise awareness.
Shanequa: I can imagine, like, loads of people have questions as well.
Lucy: Yeah, oh my gosh, loads of questions. Um, how do you pick up your guide dog's poop? Which is, you know, funny. I did show that one. But the response has been so amazing. Having a disability can be really positive and I am so disability confident and I think everyone else should be. And those are the comments that I do receive, it's amazing.
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Comments
In my opinion this is a necessary type of video for these apps as we always see people with perfect lives but this is not always the case. This doesn't mean that people living with disabilities are not happy, but that they do their daily life and their entretainements in a different way and for people without disabilities, is interesting to know how.
Hello!, I think its very important to raise awarness about the disabilities, specially since a major part of the population has one. I would love to see you joining up with other disabled people.
In my opinion, I think that showing in social media people with disabilities is impotant because they let us see how living is for them. Maybe we imagine some things, but we don't really know how it is. To help them we can like, share, comment, follow and talk about it with our friends and family.
sensitize society and young people today about the really important issues, such as health, the environment, education and not only live on appearances, on aesthetics
Maria H
raise awearness with post or storys on Instagram account and show to people that dissabilities are positive and normal
Thank you for the activity, it was really happy to see how people help persons with disabilities
Do not laugh at the intellectually disabled.
raise awareness of disabilities