However, halfway in I realized something about myself: I like memoirs, but only if I actually know who the person writing the memoir is. I would recommend everyone read this, it's inspiring and will push you to see people differently and capable of more than their appearance may show. On so many levels, not just for myself needing inspiration while at a crossroads. I don't regret listening to it as it had lots of insights into a life very different from mine. Ignorance is bliss and I blissfully danced oblivious to the fact that the audience was crying and clapping because I was special rather than spectacular.Dancing school was no joke to me.
21.1k Followers, 672 Following, 1,127 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Maysoon Zayid (@maysoonzayid) I was introduced to Maysoon Zayid's TED talk by a student when they wrote an assignment about it for my class. I think she makes a great ambassador for women, disabled, Palestinians, and Muslims as she talks very honestly about her own personal experiences while sharing her vision of a fairer future for all. Her energy filled the room, and she was self-aware, super smart, and madly funny. Though I do not share a number of her aspirations, I greatly appreciate how she refused to be limited or labeled for her disability.
Saved searches. Your dream is yours. She pursed acting after graduation, until a forthright acting coach told her she would never get cast, and ought to do a one-woman show. Hello! Would definitely recommend and have!This audiobook is so entertaining! Welcome back.
I picked this novel as my Audible freebies because it sounded the most intriguing. That makes me happy. This page was originally created by my friend Ramzi Zaccharia. I took it over when he went to heaven. When I ask them why they won’t just let their kid give walking a shot, the overwhelming response is that they are afraid their child will fall. It is completely the author's choice to include such discussion, but it likely will dissuade others of different opinions and/or looking for a temporary escape from the political landscape from absA genuinely interesting look into a Palestinian-American family that is broken up all too often in diatribe, name dropping, and eye-rolling political invective. While I find her success wonderful & her perseverance inspiring, I found her stories to represent her as a rather annoying, selfish, untactful, disrespectful snob who admits to being a mean girl, bully. Messages from my brain to my body go in all the wrong directions. Really great story! Zayid shakes all the time, though yoga has lessened the severity, and can walk but cannot stand for very long (she calls herself a sit-down stand-up comedian).Her parents treated her no differently from her siblings. The author is as poignant as she is funny, describing the experience of living as a Palestinan-America in New Jersey. But why would anyone want to see her fake cerebral palsy, when I’m sitting right here?”It was a light-bulb moment, and she realized that the movies she loved with disabled characters, like “Born on the Fourth of July,” “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape,” “Rain Man,” all had visibly nondisabled stars.