The Three Spheres of My Reality – Las Tres Esferas de Mi Realidad | Fernando Guerrero | TEDxQuito

I was born in a city that is built

between the mountains on the slopes

that are generated there I spent my childhood

a completely calm childhood

relaxed running behind a ball

with my usual friends in the

adolescence and in youth to be

a wonderful historical center and

ran behind other goals

you can imagine why everyone

We passed at those ages but quiet from

same way and my university life

Choose to take the career of

communication from very small I

he liked to present himself in front of the camera

to speak the microphone and that kind of

things and the possibility of realizing this

dream if we can call it that and with

the passage of time I succeeded and

I graduated, I was a student representative

I lived my university time without

No inconvenience but there are usually

things in life that can change us

suddenly and suddenly I was moving

over time he was always a person

dedicated to my work and all that kind

of things always looking at the clock

where do I go what do I have to

do now later later with whom

meeting

things come by their own weight not

you have to worry but of all

ways I think I’m consolidating with the

over the years a career and it’s me

then a definite person

under what the work and the

dedication to him this is me in

those times recognition arts and

communication sciences category

radio best radio broadcaster of varieties

winners fernando warrior radio today in

serious

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as you see there is no debt that is not

pay or deadline that is not met

things come if one is engaged in his

work but what was he doing in that

so what was he doing to

really transcend in life there are

some call it destiny point of

break and this is what I come to

tell a good day now

likewise for reasons of my

work had to travel from my city

removed to another city I leave very early

as usual

it had rained copiously all the

night when leaving my house I cross myself

as every day I leave and the few

minutes of leaving my city

suffer a traffic accident

really big proportions of

large proportions in my car gives seven

bell turns

after having calculated the times

already with two months I think there must be

been eight seconds 28 seconds more

long of my life no doubt some noise

laps but what they have told you

that there is a tunnel is true you see it

personal or vox

and what does your life net in scenes

also and the scenes that I got

happened at that time were those of the

childhood and adolescence the weight of

my mother when I was little in the

adolescence have laughed shared with

friends in these moments one passes

strip of images in a matter of eight

seconds

the car stops the roof of my car

all the videos had come off

they have been destroyed

imagine how the person who was going was

in the first person that helps me

and that help me at that time was the

person who was behind me only

looking at his face

he knew how things were the car

It was on fire and before it exploded

he drags me into a good collection

the sidewalk and let me call comes

medical help at that moment and in

matter of minutes reaches the

ambulance

with this mermaid that when one goes in the

auto lets her pass sometimes annoying him

but it has a different sound with a

encapsulated sound

when it comes for you completely

different

already in the ambulance and the paramedics

they were trying to make me talk so that

I did not fall into a state of unconsciousness and

he came to the hospital completely

aware

the doctor who sees me tells me you know

the serious ones are your lessons true I

I was if we did not win anything with our eyes

at least what he had liked and

it says good to us we have to operate from

immediately the specialists are

ready operating room the last thing that I

agreement but when they were taking me

on the stretcher and I remember the part

superior of the hospital group but

completely isolated the sound no longer

I heard nothing was the last thing

I was advancing and there I get lost I wake up

when I wake up a new life

completely around my bed was

my family to get closer

there was the doctor who had received me

and that he had told me that they were serious

things and then they saw the faces of

my family

this position

my grandmother said with her hand in grief

and indeed they were with the hand in the

sorry watery eyes terrible

imagine what he was going to say he did not know no

I knew the metopa doctor knowing and I

says the following we have had to

amputate your left upper limb

we hope that with excellent therapy

with months of work, walk again and

unfortunately the glasses of your car

they embedded themselves in your left eye and and

it does not assure you anything but it is very possible

that you lose your eye at that moment

absolutely everything that

you do at that moment is the question not

he managed to do nothing the only thing I think

and I tell myself what I’m going to do

I ask that please leave the

room my family and the doctor network

is in my decision and I start and a

new stage of life

I am a new person from that moment

but without knowing where and I pose

live this phase alone because it does not

I had an idea of ​​how I was going to start

I knew what I was doing in life

that was before

a few hours ago I had it clear towards

where he went he knew what he wanted and

start discovering some things

discovered that he had been sighted in

an individualistic bubble all the

time to keep winning keep ascending

regardless of the number one reach

this achieve that and this kind of

things that one sometimes thinks they are

important in essence when you

you work the things that you owe that arrives

on its own there is nothing to worry about

of confinement in a sphere that he named

individual sphere not individualistic the

I had lived all my life

I ‘ve lived there all my life

now a new sphere arises and I

begins to analyze and I say to see that I have

done in my life that is what I

I made a mistake

how many things says good and others and

and he began to berate me questioned

myself and I say severely seriously

and I do a full self-analysis is

say start shake me in a way

so strong to myself that it started

I realized that I had done very little

in life and because I remembered something that

He told my mother as a child is

a gentleman watching a butterfly come out

from his cocoon and the butterfly struggled

the cocoon because it was very small and

still struggling and struggling the

observer was simply limited to

tranquility to see what was happening

and the butterfly struggled and struggled and

I struggled the hole a little more

big but not enough so that

come out the body of the butterfly

this good Samaritan if you cut the

cocoon to butterfly Exit

Butterfly comes out but does not comply with the

normal process is to say the fluids

the biggest hole had been

fluids do not go to your wings your

body was too big can not

fly

and within a few minutes that butterfly dies

I am now living this process in

lonely and fight goes with myself with

my insecurities with a new fernando

even physically with a new body

absolutely everything redesigned

after this phase I find myself

same literary violence that loved me

I’m happy with how I am that I do not

I already have prejudices with myself and I

ready for a new phase they give you the

high after several weeks in the

hospital and I had to link to my

I work at my usual activities and

I find that when I go out

people look at me differently came to the

Similarly office and people I

look different treat me differently were

motivational phrases that I had

order you can not achieve what you do not

had asked for that the behavior of

the people towards me was another was not

the same as before

discover that a situation of

disability is not in the person the

disability is in society the

society is the one with the disability

and we must learn to be inclusive to

understand other realities

I do not lack so much in that I felt

uncomfortable with questions I did not expect

and that kind of thing

definitely my social environment for

nothing constructive what we say to the

boys when they are young the bums

of your friends are useless

now I felt that really my environment

it served me for nothing

I start to look for other environments other

groups I find a special one different

to which I keep a lot of affection but it was

of people with disabilities

unfortunately in the space in which

I did not feel noticed I did not feel

criticized or for the minimum thing that

did was a

a hero I did not feel on equal

conditions with all had practiced

rugby before and now I practiced 4 ruby

after time

now this is me I’m with green jockey

for me to recognize at that time

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I was completely fascinated with this

sport for a while

I live a very good therapy

definitely go back to walking vigo

recover satisfactorily and well this

environment enriches me greatly and xavi

in my usual activities I find

also that I had a certain attitude

reluctant to other people and I understand

that what I should do is teach

the other people to understand what

which it is the disability exists

sensitive physical motor disability

intellectual is to say not only had

disability society but I

I also had certain prejudices

it’s time to educate my environment and

I start with those beginnings educate

in my office to my family and talk

on the issue of disability in a

university in another I learn instructed me

what I was now asking for without a doubt

enriching experiences

so I become a small agent

of change in my social sphere which

called social sphere

Anyway, I have a certain

A certain emptiness I was missing

something else and I had recovered if well

it’s true as far as walking and in

how much to my eye but I needed a

device for the upper limb

I start to look for what is there

and there existed then in the

market and I see that unfortunately my

country there were no greater possibilities

I travel my continent in the same way

existed transcending borders and

I find in North America an option and

the other in Europe and North America

the darpa agency was developing a

interesting project but only

they worked with military and union

European was developing a project

called pawns

these two projects intended Something

that they intended to return the touch to

human being who has suffered a

amputation good for him

the common of mortals maybe not

have a lot of transcendence but

He commented that there are a billion

People with disabilities

15 percent of all people who

exist in the world has some kind of

disability therefore a very serious issue

I propose to link myself to this project

he told my family they tell me that

I’m completely crazy

in any case with the passage of

days ago I backed up to the

approaches and they tell me in what

consists

I had to submit to other

surgical interventions and I include myself

included in this project

investigation and I’m part of it he came

with doctors from across the European Union to

my surgical interventions are

transmitted live to all countries

and what it was was to embed 4

electrodes on the top and those

connect them to a robotic prosthesis and

through that being able to feel the things

that I could take in a certain

at the moment I am alive, a process of

Training an intense year of 8

the morning to 8 o’clock on Monday night

Saturday where what I was doing was

precisely having different sensations

different to be able to

differentiate objects

what we do every day

usually and we do not value

we see but we do not look at us we hear

but we do not listen and in the same way

we hit but we felt

we have to give ourselves time for that

after a year of having completed

all this project came the

evidence the

scientific verification consisted of

that completely isolated do the same

what I did for a year that is capped

the eyes covered the ears that take

objects carry from one side to another and

tell what object it is or was not yet

had this experience

and in effect I can feel a petal for

feel a leaf

I can feel a ball for feeling everything

I can feel soft hard surfaces

everything absolutely and that moment you

you say I want to feel the hand of

people that I love and things like that but

I was inside and I could not do it

this project although it is true had

something negative shock

it develops in 15 years after 15

years

someone will have the possibility of

get such a prosthesis a

robotic device of that type delay

so much and therefore on a continuum

detachment lived on a continuum

detachment

when I have to change my life and I go

with you detachment going from a

side to side from side to side in the

operations that it takes in this because

had to deliver the after having

lived this incredible experience but

I have the satisfaction that I was part of

of this and that after 15 years a

child who maybe I do not know a

Sir, maybe I did not get to

see I do not know what could happen

is going to benefit from this because this

technology returns the touch and also to

the people who have been imputed of

leg will allow them to differentiate

a surface the surface on which

pisa is not the same pixar cement that

step on mud and you have to do it in a

differently so that they do not wear out

the holes the hip bones

that is to say this technological advance

implies many things has satisfied with

All this

return to my country and in this process of

self-discovery start to perform

activities for the benefit of people

with a disability some time has passed

and what I define this is in three spheres

I think we have to leave the sphere behind

individualist in burning in the greatest

part of people we unwrap

you have to rethink an individual sphere

in which you have to question

seriously openly tell the

truths in front of the mirror I like it or not

I like to accept myself as I am as I am

short flank small as well there you have to

go through that and have a social sphere

and even though it hurts and we think and

we tell our children is that your

friends we do not have 30 40 and we continue in

those vicious circles that do not

they contribute in nothing we have to learn to

get rid of that and if that

necessarily because it is our environment

closest

we have to be there to reeducate

re-teach for positive things

I think there is a third sphere that is

the one that we need to develop the

most of people that is a

humanistic sphere the things that we

we must do we must do them

completely extreme

rivers completely thinking not about me

but in what I can contribute to another

person

everything is important so that they

I invite you to raise these three

spheres and with clear objectives

let’s go together forward we know

what is possible as long as

let’s do things in the heart thanks

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