the truth that it is very crazy to feel like
guests and guests who
they talk about different disciplines of
robotics biology botany in
neuroscience well alex this morning that
he told us about the objects set and feel
how everything connects not me when
I was preparing the the charrita had
very scary because I thought
nobody likes history not g
me when when I was going to study when
I went to study history they told me but
why not what are you going to do with that?
and then but if I do not say this
because a lot of people here talking about
story not then it’s very crazy to feel
how everything is connected or alexa is
morning he started talking about objects and
and I want to show you yes yes badly and I
deja is an anarchist bitch and she jumps
all disciplines analysis them
I want to show this is a a sticker on
Braille that a friend gave me
friend who learned Braille by the pure
pleasure of learning what does not want
so he does not want it for any
utilitarian issue did not learn
braille for nós and go to the congo
teach blind people the
braille but he rewarded it for pure
pleasure and gave me this garment that
now he is studying animation in
salamanca and she is not is not she came to
say what I learned for pure pleasure and
stickers says look is not always see and
this is one of the initial ideas that
with which I wanted to start and the other
is to tell you how good that I
I hold and a lot of other people also do not
I’m not the only one
that disability is not east and I know
I repeat again the disability does not
exists what exists is diversity the
disability is true the organization
world health tells us that there
five major disabilities not clear
When you can not see, you can not see
visual disability
one can not hear no hey
hearing impairment
One-e has for example the syndrome
of down and intellectual disability one
have a diagnosis of depression
schizophrenia another disability is treated
psychosocial already but now I ask them
what about the environment
what’s up with our buildings that
happen with our homes
what’s up with our streets what’s up
with our roads
what about the technologies that happens
with the tools that we use with
the kitchen utensils with our
beds with our chairs with our
tables that are designed to
people who have two legs that
they walk two arms that they grab with two
hands not two ears listen and a
brain that interprets the reality of
a certain way
everything else I am going to say it
academically to hell and that has done
that unfortunately because an idea of
that the disability must be a
pathology that must be cured must be
rehabilitated and that if not then
well no or you have to disappear that
he said formerly or as much as he
You can seek relief something no
disability has a Latin term
which means not able to teese is a
prefix which means no
then he is able to capere appointments
that comes from grabbing also be worth
then from there but good in
the story has been used other terms
worse I have not asked for disabled
useless in Spain during the dictatorship
franco that I say 40 years was said
useless total useless well
I invite to a trip a trip towards a
border a border that is a
invisible border that is what has
created the dichotomy this separation
between normality and disability the
normal centuries since
thousands of years says that everything that does not
has everything that is not and means
mostly significant everything
that is not statistically
significant is normal and the other is
to normality and therefore there is
that re normalize it not then I’ll
I invite you to cross this border which is a
invisible border is what separates the
disability to normal
there are other borders that are
guarded by policemen by soldiers
there are customs there are walls us and
we can see in the news the
thousands of refugees and immigrants who
flee from wars hunger or that
they simply want to know another one
world not and every time in europe and in
united states borders are closed
unfortunately not but I tell them about
another border is the border between the
disability and normality though
good to say
I’m against both the border
physical as of the mental border and by
that we create with other partners we are
more, it’s not just me
a thing that is called mocking borders
borders and means cheat is a
word we all say do not tease
of me those things but has another
meaning in old Spanish that is
that comes from raffle dodge
something is dodging the EU for that because
It is recommended that we close the
eyes is recommended because for this
border this border we’re going to stop
to make this month to cross that
border
let’s go on a trip and this trip
let’s do with through the
imagination no and well I propose you
let them guide you think
ever a blind person of
shiga want a trip
good as it is through the
imagination do not worry they are not going to
kill with some mates we have with
some friends we have traveled cities
they eyes closed to rice from me
none has died so I do not know
worry because it is more innocuous good
We went on a trip and we got to the
space that’s why I say everything connects
we arrive to space an astronaut
he described in the 60s 70 his
no experience and he said it was
amazing because in space
you see america australia africa towards
Europe
just shaking his head and every 90
minutes after the rising and setting of
Sun
and not only that, because the rivers once
jungles once the tropics once
mountains and here goes the first idea the
guy says when you see this from
above you realize that the
divisions among peoples among
races and religions are totally
artificial does not make any sense
because because the planet is a whole and
everything is connected
had they ever imagined
reliable talks about what you see from
above
well then we work from the
bird of space and we immerse ourselves in
history and now he invited them to the
next stop the next station the
next terminal in history
we arrive at prehistory in history
of the so-called disability
always a fundamental idea is said in
the past life was very hard and how
very hard life
people with disabilities I will
say another academic word they had it
well fucked
already but with the arrival of
Western democracies everything has been
easier from democracies
and of and the 20th century and the famous state
of well-being
everything has been easier, well,
this is not the case, there is a deposit
archaeological found
in atapuerca that is the deposit
oldest archaeological of Europe
they have found minigolf of 900 thousand
years in this era
you imagine do not worry
They are traveling with me and they are invisible
I also had brown leopards
lions elephants wooly tiger teeth
of saber there was an artistic
predators deer buffaloes full
giant be treated other no
well, these archaeologists and
true among human beings that
populated that area was practiced the
cannibalism no but he lived more than a
chicken in santa cruz that be chicken in
Holy Cross lives less still that
the people of that time
well then there are these people and I had
a life expectancy of between 10 and 12
years by archaeologists found
a girl a girl the skull of a
girl that when they examined her they gave
account that he had deficit of
deformations between physical quotes
motor and they asked how is it
possible that a girl who has
quote formation lived
ten years is the same hope
of life that the rest of the people
it is impossible that I have lived ten
years and would not have taken care of it if not
there would have been cooperation
if there had not been a life in
community if there had not been
solidarity
then these people put the name of
benjamin
At first I thought it was a boy
they put benjamin that in Hebrew
means dear child they did not put him
benjamina and good first idea when
we buy we do well when we compete
another academic word
we fuck her then we get to age
Ancient Greece and Rome
it is also said that in sparta and in and
in Athens as they were thought societies
for the war as in Rome then
the people with disabilities had it
very difficult or good but hey
it turns out that in Greece for example it is
he admired blind people because he
he valued them as fortune tellers towards
go in and you can see other
worlds and you are connected with the gods
and I wish I had been born at that time
because I would have left poor always and
I always thought about promoting myself years ago
as richard the obvious risk not what
what I want to tell you with this is that in
true life was very hard but in all
era there have been people able to overcome
that and to protest and transform and
injustice not after we got to the
Middle Ages and modern and there is good
God the center of everything and then the
person with disabilities are engaged
especially to beg and then good
they begged and people helped them
because they believed that that means
win the sky
then all good, but when
we reached almost almost our time then
there are a few intellectuals who
they start at ten they think too much and they
bored is what happens and how bored
they say it affected all these people
begging as they can work can
develop trades but eye who does not
You can nilly they will go to close it
let’s go we’re going to forcefully lock
in hospitals in jails in
institutions arise the first
psychiatric those things already then
there we come to the nineteenth century
20th century
we are approaching our time and
great inventions arise the train the
steamboat
the hot air balloon the telegraph that
kind of things and there we are with the uncle
Darwin Uncle Darwin is the one who says that
we come from the monkey and also says that
everything is focused on the survival of
more apt darwin said it more than anything
for animals but their relatives and
friends thought for the human being and
and there arose the eugenics that the
genes is said every person with
disability
it’s going to be bad and it’s going to degenerate to be
human therefore be sterilized
to women and we must not allow
continue to make people with disabilities
since they are unproductive and this
spoke of the 19th century and the twentieth century in
united states in virginia and carolina
from the north it was sterilized to 60 70 thousand
people and in Sweden until the 70s
of the 20th century
to almost 200,000 people still
today there are people who claim that the
I will repair them to recognize that
their human rights have been violated not
there is an anthropologist and his name is Robert
murphy a gringo that but this one is for
understand us this
this man was a specialist in
couple and in a village in africa
Western or not
this boy suffered an accident does not suffer
an accident did not detect a tumor
benign spinal cord not
He killed but left stood
paralyzed little by little little by little it was
losing the mobility of
limbs and in the end I could not
control his sphincters could not
control urination and to fix this
guy said I’m an anthropologist that
traveled that I traveled half the world that
a camel
Now it’s my turn to take a trip to the interior
myself and is not now plays no
I have to study other societies
exotic but it’s going to touch me
study myself and realized
one thing
the first that society
American based on success
fast in unlimited enrichment
in money simply for the money
not everything
not of course the whole society
devaluates the disability it underestimates
but I also disabled her because
my mind now I look different
I have to start to change is and until
now the society always well always
have seen disability as a
divine punishment as a burden as a
misfortune as a punishment because it has
touched me not and in fact today
because there are still dads and moms who
when a boy or girl is born with
blindness with hearing impairment
Efe after another say that it will be his
what is going to be of her, not what will be
she still today not and good and if you have
an accident because obviously it goes through
a process of mourning depression and so on
etc. until some people
they get to see that thing up here
everything that I propose to change
paradigm not paradigms a set of
thoughts a way of seeing the world
it’s not about changing the paradigm to
see that disability diversity
diversity
defined by the dictionary of the real
language academy as dissimilarity
difference variety but eye diversity
within humanity
we are all equal in the
meaning and we belong to it
species
a campaign against racism makes
years in Spain that said different
but equal and
then this anthropologist realized
that the study that the ex pairs and the
mundurucu of west africa were
cooperatives as they were cooperative yes
well community them if they give value to
diversity to people with
disability because the value in the
community self – care self – care
is very important and now I come to
a couple of stories that I love you
count of people did not travel through Bolivia
for two years new with dog
there was and what I’m trying to pick up
beam stories of people with evil
called diversity disability
human being so rich and so important that
we have but eye not to explain the
disability itself but so that
the disability source bolivia through
of disability in quotes
we can know how are our
cities like our architecture like
urbanism as is the policy not
how we move on a day to day basis
is that the disability source bolivia and
good last year during the march
what was it from Cochabamba to the
peace
Well, I was there to do
interviews and doing chronicles and knew
happy to elisa and ramos that was director
of the country channel that is the organism that
the state created center years ago
State for the care of people with
disability
happy last year were the
mobilizations and she told me about
independent life project and
independent means that people who
they can only move one eye
for example , or the big toe of that
they have the right to take their own
decisions because I have already commented
that until recently people with
the so-called severe disability very serious
they were locked up in institutions and not
had no decision-making ability and
they ate and how you beat and
how much money did he have if that kind of
things
independent life what it says is I do not
I can move but I have the capacity to
decide and how we are going to do it
through community care
other people that already what they already do
independent life they will advise me
how to move and apart from that what
promote is that the state pay your
caregivers that the state pays
assistants that does not have to be the
family and friends to help you but beware
they become your hands and
his legs in nothing else
decisions are made you decide
when to eat when you stop eating and
those things
happy they gave me a scholarship to go to
Japan when he went to Japan he discovered
possessed people who can only just
in quotes he could move an eye and without
However, he organized his house, managed the
cleaning left nothing here
well some do not have mobility for
go outside but had a window
the world had friends and so on
etcetera how they cleaned their house
only no or they did not have powers
supernatural but they used what
I have told you caregivers and caregivers
that became your hands and your
legs but who decides
when it’s you is a matter of
respect the human rights of
people then happy to now what
is doing is to promote the model of
independent life in Bolivia so that
do not believe that all the
cities come from outside
good and at the moment I’m going to propose
now an an exercise for which before
I told him it was advisable to have the
closed eyes
now I tell them it is obligatory to close the
eyes and I’m looking at you it’s good now
let’s hear how our sounds
very large Bolivian cities is eye
closed please
they have closed eyes when we cross
now
now it seems that there is a vote but for
others
[Music]
well this what what I want
to sustain with this is that the disability
is in the environment
if we create designed human environments
for all and for all not for people
not only for the supposed person with
disability also for a grandmother
who is already 80 years old and who does not have
what to climb gigantic stands for example
or that does not have to cross the street
risking their lives because the cars do not
respect the traffic lights make this wave
little zebras here to me I came up with the
joke that Mali already knew the
zebra crossings seven years ago without
need for nobody to explain it and
however , we have to have it
explain why we skip then
that disability is in the environment
then the only thing I want to tell you
with this is that the disability is a
it is a natural mechanism that is made
so that we learn to cooperate and that’s why
course does not mean that there is no
treat it and treat it
it must be treated and initiatives arise
like leonardo’s not for example that
his prosthesis is made but the
disability is a natural mechanism that
forces us to cooperate with disability
it exists because it forces us to not
competing makes us cooperate makes us be
more human
disability diversity that we
enriches
thank you very much
[Applause]
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