I’m fine I’m fine passes much
If you fall, you worry that I was already
so white until tomorrow and it is for being
albino so I fall and good me
it fell with a lot of grace not
we must not lose love or stand
for foxes on the ground and I’ve actually
come to talk about judo what he
He has not taught me about life
I am a high performance athlete
paralympic because of my visual disability
been in three editions of the games
in Athens, Beijing and London
I have managed to get a medal in all
they know it for someone
[Applause]
so that he does not for judo is a
Contact sport is a martial art
Japanese means path of the
flexibility as it has no hits
direct as such blind people or
almost blind as I can do with
a tiny adaptation that will start
garros
for me judo is a magnificent
metaphor of life one of your goals
fundamentals is staying upright
I challenge you the ct move adaptative but not
you fall or rather that they do not throw you
but who has not ever fallen for
that the first thing taught in judo is
to fall well so as not to hurt yourself because
it is very wisely presupposed what is
what’s going to happen to you and not one or two
many many times and all getting up is
required
some of these falls are brutal that
they leave you with no air carry even more
below the ground they leave even marks or
scars but if you’re smart and you know
give a positive reading for the same
price you get an apprenticeship and what
it is better than any improvement in camps
that philosophy of judo to prepare
for when things do not go well it ‘s
very useful for everything because who has not
hit bottom once all all
we have a history of overcoming and
who does not have the will
I’m going to tell you how I hit bottom
after four years preparing for
the games and getting to classify me
possibly arrived in good faith
be one of the most competitions
difficult that he has done best with
beautiful battles and finally my
moment I am in the final
I can almost touch my gold medal and have
said my name and I have to go out to
to compete
I’m super means help your hands but
I’m concentrated
I leave the combat began we grabbed not
I know how much of the combat
I think not reached three seconds he was
standing screaming and I could only think
faster is here I already lonely I cried
a lot until he put his head and everything
I had given myself such a slap that I
They jumped to cover the molars
require the following day to the dentist of
the paralympic village to which I stuck by
true they did not know that we had
these services but much stronger
it was the vital slap that I see that
I almost went to get my medal
gold and almost lost to the teeth and
over as the protagonist of one of those
moments that remain for history
and beware that I am the one who loses knowing the
that falls to the ground judged was fed up
lose late
I know it may seem a bit ridiculous
complain about a second place but I
I got on the gas podium in form
systematic after losing the last
combat and I did not like the feeling and
I touched bottom that day I retired thinking
he was unable to win a final was
just like another and I stayed in the
background for a while the background I think there’s
to feel it to be able to push forward
to learn of course I came back with
many lessons learned organization
teamwork but above all with
a different attitude now enjoys the
privilege of being able to compete and be
there and when the second one like me
happened again this past summer in a
European championship or last week
Saturday I celebrated it I enjoy it and
above all to learn and it is that I already came
being a specialist in learning
lessons because by their circumstances
I have had to learn a lot about the
life like everybody else I do not know
more than the others
what happens is that as a consequence of
albinism
ability I have had to give many more
tumbles to learn the same thing that’s what
what do people do with
disability
we come to the same place by a path
different innovating and creating what is not
existed before
good albinism there are many types of
albinism but this one that I have
apparently is characterized by this
white hair that everyone usually
easily recognize if you light me
One moment please
You can me removed his glasses and taught
the eyes these red eyes almost all the
world knows we can not stand the
light that we can not get in the sun
well I do not have to come from the beds
but what a lot of people do not know is
that this is accompanied by a
severe visual impairment
I for example see 10 percent
this means that I’m half two
points of those who see and of those who do not
come and at the same time I’m not in
any
I have what is called a visual rest and
I see it has returned a little has returned is like
if it lacks in pixels what I do not have
is definition then by friends
They know me because they know they are
they who have to greet me
always all the others identify and
say who’s not worth just retired the
marco I already know who I am for example
when I go to kindergarten to
pick up my baby
He waited for her to be the one
me with his arms raised saying
Mom has not yet taken me to a
child who was not a friend
when I go to school to pick up the
two majors if me medianito is very
moved thing that happens often placed him
over a yellow phosphorite vest
because that way when it’s close it’s
child I have to scream sas I know what
you are thinking is a wonderful idea
for the agglomerations but I did not
You can trust me because you make me dust
to use the phone the computers
adapted software ions and when
I have to see things on the street used
a telescope of some special clothes
to finally read a wonder that
there are all the adaptations that
there is but for people to understand what
who sees what I do not see, I have to give
many explanations
That’s how my life is going explaining
but still for more aspirations than
I have today very early times
of history
we are not like cats we do not see better
the night
we are not as bad as they paint us
hollywood but there are people who for more
explanations that you give them for it
catches are white or black and these
through blind cd they see and people who
see that blind they do not understand
how many times have you forgotten about those
only what you are interested in attending a
courage but if I think about it
the truth is that part of reason yes that
there is in this because what it costs me
look how I care about a damn is
that turns off and let’s see really what
of Gaddafi
what is clear is that everything is
confusion confusion and confusion and if
You’ve been doing this for 35 years
there was less information than now
imagine I had a happy childhood
because I am a person with a character
happy by nature and the slap me what
I took when adolescence arrives and
I first understood everything
I assumed that it happened to me that then
I still did not have a name like I did not want
read at school right away they put me
the vague poster and I complied with a
champion with me as they did not leave
approaching began to encircle
acting approaching to see the blackboard
get up to go see the blackboard but in
I remember that my day to day
I approached I could see many things
times simply because when I put
head to see something with the bald
I was throwing everything around what I
I wanted to see or when I was going to throw my hand
because the phrase already says what you see
but it is not touched and little by little
the little things that were happening to me because I
I went by the idea within
feeling of unworthiness and I wanted
information to which I had no right
that was not for me I find it curious
how are we going to mark the things that we
pass
I could not say or if I suffered
bullying or not because since I had use
reason and up to 15 years living
with a group of cronies that still
Conservo was alone
roaming the schoolyard and all
the world and in this case I refer to the
adults it seemed the most normal was
a victim of the circumstances of
unintentionally without bad intention
the consequences were terrible as
consequence of the labels and the
lack of information that resulted in a
total lack of accessibility and did not speak
of special reading glasses or
a telelupa spoke of sad glasses
of sun a simple cap went away
building a wall of limits of things
that he could not do that really not
existed and I was becoming a
authentic handicapped because I felt
so I think that at that time nobody gave
nobody believed that it would reach any
very far away and that’s how my
race to the top of the podium
or good in my case the position of just to
side
luckily for me when I crossed in
my life and I had the courage not to leave
pass the opportunity to discover by
first time what it was like to be in a
normalized environment
I was already in inclusion but with a
goop to explain the difference for
me the inclusion
first implies that first they have
excluded is important not first
first texaco embedded that now no longer
it ends up fitting and when the
normalization as it is accessible is
adaptable implies that we all make a
activity the same activity
each one with your specific needs
covered each one specific consultations
covered and without altering the dynamics of
group
one pass naturally I was not even the
first c gatilla of the first route that
I passed by ati
but includes from the first moment that
that’s how things had to be
there were wonderful people in that
site starting with my profession my
First Vicente teacher who believed in me
despite lack of coordination and lack of
confidence and then had many
wonderful experiences also like
when he can be with mariví and
participate in the league of clubs of the
community of madrid or in my current club
in the rozas with nacho the judo bit to
little I was in power ‘he did not teach me to
get in value thanks to feel
part of something bigger than I
He taught me to force myself not to settle for
results to sacrifice for passion
thanks to a new thing that I had not
experienced a positive feedback before
At last and effort, the
results taught me not to be a
victim of my past to be a victim
of my same definitive to become my mistress
free and responsible for my life to take
decisions to choose the battles
even to be part of this process
in other people with one of those
great principles of judo that what
distinguish from other sports and is here
today the mutual benefit
achieve excellence judo can
look like an individual sport but nothing
farther from reality
we do not need each other to
evolve together within the river is
even has its own principle would be
One last
tomorrow there would be this atmosphere
in all classrooms in all classes and
in all jobs
I know that many people many children
many adults who are in
normalization but there are also other
many people who stay like me
I was a problem that I did not know
knows how to deal with a problem that does not
can solve the benefits
society are very clear for
people with diversity
simply because it is the world in which
we have to be in a reality
parallel that sooner or later we will
exploit
in addition to people with diversity we
put where the drums bring that
different point of view that ability
to look for alternative ways to see
solutions and for people without
disability
they learn to treat everyone with
naturalness they learn that life is
perfectly imperfect that everyone
we have rights and obligations
we have the right to be parents we have
right to be children we have the right to
study
we have an obligation to approve and so little
little by little society is transforming and
one day we will have a partnership
normalizer full of normalizers
natives how can my children be my
children do not question my abilities
they take them for granted for them now
same I am almost omnipotent until
come to the teenager to continue being
just as useless as the rest of the
parents who do not know anything about life but
until that moment arrives
The fact is that I would like the day of
tomorrow all this will reach everywhere
but there may be a limit there may be
a top and we all have to work for
that this does not happen and is to fight against
true disability a disability
What I do worry about is the lack of
empathy is a disability without papers
not recognized by the state but very
limiting not only limited to you too
It limits those around because
does not allow to see neither the good nor the
positive from others and many times neither
what of the self either and in
Sometimes it does allow them to park where
they should not and in the future become
architectural barriers are people who
he does not see roads he does not see alternatives
see solutions and there is no worse blind than the
who does not want to see
they are people who have a hard time flowing
and they need our help they need
partnerships and much collaboration
citizen
I am one more without more
I do not see limits I know they are there
waiting for me to arrive for
change them
I think about trying to fulfill my dreams
crazy how to get to tokyo games
with my circumstances my 40 years my
injuries
my three children my job but in all
these adventures
alone will not always come with me this
Martha girl of 12 years who is perplexed
that does not trust anything that does not believe it
He has already taken the hand and
he said look at everything we’ve
got everything we’ve done
recognition medals that family
wonderful
those three children that ‘s high
sports performance but not only
finish believing
that’s why I did not leave it I keep it in line
he just let out when we’re going to dance
because that I still do the same
that when I was 12 years old
But you are a lucky and I
you are not going to have to see do not wait for
that life gives us a slap to
Put all our potential to work
if that distrustful one and I have arrived
where have we come to
leaving from several meters back
from the starting line that you can not
do you
thank you very much
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