Bine-I Believe in Diversity
Hello Beautiful People 🌹
I am Bine. 43 years old. Disabled - AMC. Married to Peter and we have 2 children aged 4 and 6. We live in Denmark so things are a bit different from the USA.
Our life is probably like many others with a busy everyday life in the form of jobs, bringing and fetching children from kindergarten and sports, food, bathing and sleeping 🙈. I work as a teacher and reading tutor.
But beside that, we are a family, who likes to travel. In 2019 we travelled a short trip to Tenerife in March and in November/December 5 weeks in Australia.
In my youth, I really travelled around the world a lot as a paralympic swimmer. I have seen the world and I love it. I love meeting people with other backgrounds than mine, other cultures, culinary experiences and seeing a lot of great sights.
I believe in people and that is why I wrote this blog-post
Enjoy the Reading. If you want to read more you can read more on my blog www.bybinedk on my Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bybinedk/ and on my Facebook site https://www.facebook.com/bineamc/
I Believe in Diversity
Borrowed from youtube
When the sharpest words wanna cut me down
I’m gonna send a flood, gonna drown them out
I am brave, I am bruised
I am who I’m meant to be, this is me
Look out ’cause here I come
And I’m marching on to the beat I drum
I’m not scared to be seen
I make no apologies, this is me
There is a difference between us all. To learn and see the diversity in people is one facet I think is incredibly important. Of course mainly because I am physically disabled - AMC, look different from the “norm” … I have crooked useless arms and therefore need some help in my everyday life. But of course compared to my job as a teacher it is on another level, such as interest similarities or inequalities etc.
Well in teaching one day when we work we hear the above song. And it hits me with a fist right in the face. It could have been me singing there. For as strong as I am I have nevertheless tried a little of each, been deselected by friends, been called ugly things.
Thank goodness I was born in 1976 - and not 100 years before when the disabled were freak-shows in the circus - by some strong parents with strong attitudes. I received the same upbringing as my little brother, despite the fact that I obviously needed / got help for personal and practical things. I had jobs at home - like my brother - to earn pocket money. And I'm happy today as an adult. It has made me strong and full of love. I am grateful that my parents have brought me up to say, to bite things on me and not to lose face, stand up and burst when I have been deselected because of my disability, to forgive even if it is really absurd , not to bear the nag - almost.
But I'm always just too sweet and say OK.
And that's NOT OK.
But for the sake of peace, I leave it at that, I think positively and think it's a waste of time. I CHOOSE those I want and those that want me. And I love it. It is my family and my / our amazing network.
I love my life. Life must be seen in a wealth of glitter, as Hella Joof, the amazing Danish author, writes. I Will not trade my life for anything in the world.
I mean, we're all different. Thank goodness
for that.
There must be room for diversity. But in today's modern welfare society, there are still some taboos. It should be solved. Therefore, i.a. this post.
I believe in diversity. I simply have to because of the situation I am in. I believe and hope that inequality among people is equalized.
STAY POSITIVE!