【我的推荐】【积极励志故事】TED 轮椅上的深海潜水

《阿甘正传》的励志故事，鼓励我们积极面对生活。 #生活乐趣# #日常生活趣事# #生活趣味分享# #读书笔记与感悟#

#我的推荐##我的脑洞#今晚看了这个#TED演讲#感动之余真是脑洞大开。残疾艺术家Sue Austin通过不懈的努力终于实现坐着轮椅潜水的梦想，甚至在水中点燃火炬作为伦敦残奥的宣传——楞啥，Cherik it! 教授最适合这种笼罩光环的壮举了！老万负责研发轮椅和火炬吧！@黄柯基KK 快画图！ 自带圣母光辉的残疾教授和默默暗恋的高级工程师老万……而且教授下水的时候，老万一定穿着紧身潜水衣在旁边守候，点燃火炬的时候，哭哭鲨肯定会发作！
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It's wonderful to be here to talk about my journey, to talk about the wheelchair and the freedom it has bought me.
　　I started using a wheelchair 16 years ago when an extended illness changed the way I could access the world. When I started using the wheelchair, it was a tremendous new freedom. I'd seen my life slip away and become restricted. It was like having an enormous new toy. I could whiz around and feel the wind in my face again. Just being out on the street was exhilarating.
　　But even though I had this newfound joy and freedom, people's reaction completely changed towards me. It was as if they couldn't see me anymore, as if an invisibility cloak had descended. They seemed to see me in terms of their assumptions of what it must be like to be in a wheelchair. When I asked people their associations with the wheelchair, they used words like "limitation," "fear," "pity" and "restriction." I realized I'd internalized these responses and it had changed who I was on a core level. A part of me had become alienated from myself. I was seeing myself not from my perspective, but vividly and continuously from the perspective of other people's responses to me.
　　As a result, I knew I needed to make my own stories about this experience, new narratives to reclaim my identity.
　　["Finding Freedom: 'By creating our own stories we learn to take the texts of our lives as seriously as we do 'official' narratives.' — Davis 2009, TEDx Women"]
　　I started making work that aimed to communicate something of the joy and freedom I felt when using a wheelchair -- a power chair -- to negotiate the world. I was working to transform these internalized responses, to transform the preconceptions that had so shaped my identity when I started using a wheelchair, by creating unexpected images. The wheelchair became an object to paint and play with. When I literally started leaving traces of my joy and freedom, it was exciting to see the interested and surprised responses from people. It seemed to open up new perspectives, and therein lay the paradigm shift. It showed that an arts practice can remake one's identity and transform preconceptions by revisioning the familiar.
　　So when I began to dive, in 2005, I realized scuba gear extends your range of activity in just the same way as a wheelchair does, but the associations attached to scuba gear are ones of excitement and adventure, completely different to people's responses to the wheelchair.
　　So I thought, "I wonder what'll happen if I put the two together?" (Laughter) (Applause) And the underwater wheelchair that has resulted has taken me on the most amazing journey over the last seven years.
　　So to give you an idea of what that's like, I'd like to share with you one of the outcomes from creating this spectacle, and show you what an amazing journey it's taken me on.
　　(Music)
　　(Applause)
　　It is the most amazing experience, beyond most other things I've experienced in life. I literally have the freedom to move in 360 degrees of space and an ecstatic experience of joy and freedom.
　　And the incredibly unexpected thing is that other people seem to see and feel that too. Their eyes literally light up, and they say things like, "I want one of those," or, "If you can do that, I can do anything."
　　And I'm thinking, it's because in that moment of them seeing an object they have no frame of reference for, or so transcends the frames of reference they have with the wheelchair, they have to think in a completely new way. And I think that moment of completely new thought perhaps creates a freedom that spreads to the rest of other people's lives. For me, this means that they're seeing the value of difference, the joy it brings when instead of focusing on loss or limitation, we see and discover the power and joy of seeing the world from exciting new perspectives. For me, the wheelchair becomes a vehicle for transformation. In fact, I now call the underwater wheelchair "Portal," because it's literally pushed me through into a new way of being, into new dimensions and into a new level of consciousness.
　　And the other thing is, that because nobody's seen or heard of an underwater wheelchair before, and creating this spectacle is about creating new ways of seeing, being and knowing, now you have this concept in your mind. You're all part of the artwork too.
　　(Applause)

                

                huffingtonpost的相关报道：
Experts Told This Artist Her Dream Was Impossible. It's A Good Thing She Didn't Listen
British artist Sue Austin continues to push forward in ways even top experts never thought possible.
Austin, who has been using a wheelchair for nearly two decades due to an extended illness, uses an innovative underwater wheelchair to create stunning visual art. She also hopes to challenge us to rethink the way we see people with disabilities.
With photos, videos and performance art pieces involving her unique underwater wheelchair named "Portal," Austin strives to redefine the way we relate to people in wheelchairs. She works to fight back against negative stigma, including such terms as "limited," "held back" and "immobilized," she said at a TED conference in 2012. She implores people to instead demonstrate the ways in which we can find the value and joy in being different.
Austin first got involved with diving in 2005, according to the Guardian. She said the sport granted her freedom and renewed access to the rest of the world.
But she faced some backlash when she proposed the idea of diving in a wheelchair.
"When we started talking to people about it, engineers were saying it wouldn’t work, the wheelchair would go into a spin, it was not designed to go through water -- but I was sure it would," Austin told the BBC in 2012. With the help of dive experts, engineers, academics and funding from places like England’s Arts Council, Austin’s vision was realized.
Her work was brought to a larger audience when she was chosen as one of the featured artists at the Unlimited Festival, a part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad in London. The cultural program accompanied the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics.
Since then, Austin and her nonprofit organization Freewheeling, an integrated arts program, have been gaining more attention, which has been one her main goals.
"People’s reaction completely changed towards me. It was as if they couldn’t see me anymore, as if an invisibility cloak had descended," she said during her TED talk about how people responded when she started using a wheelchair. "As a result, I knew I needed to make my own stories about this experience, new narratives to reclaim my identity."
相关视频：
第一篇：寻找自由
'Creating the Spectacle!' -Part 1 - Finding Freedom.
第二篇：寻找火焰
'Creating the Spectacle!' Online - Part 2 - Finding the Flame

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