Good Morning

Today, while looking for Drupal Resources some tutorials on theming search result, I come across a video posted by Tom Rogers, an English Boy who is affected by a condition known as cerebral palsy. Though not a disease itself, it is a condition which causes physical disability in human development, chiefly in the various areas of body movement.

Cerebral palsy is caused by damage to the motor control centres of the developing brain and can occur during pregnancy, during childbirth or after birth up to about age three. Resulting limits in movement and posture cause activity limitation and are often accompanied by disturbances of sensation, depth perception and other sight-based perceptual problems, communication ability, and sometimes even cognition; sometimes a form of CP may be accompanied by epilepsy. CP, no matter what the type, is often accompanied by secondary musculoskeletal problems that arise as a result of the underlying etiology. Source: Wikipedia

So to speak… CP is not a hindrance to learn, to be excellent, to be great or to be helpful. Most of the time, it is us (not them), who makes them to feel like unwanted and unaccepted. I am impressed to see this boy teaches the world how to drupal via video in youtube. Oh yeah, he also has his own channel at youtube.

All these years, serving as Librarian at Open Uni. Malaysia, I have met many people with physical disadvantage. None of them has shown any signs of defeats or setbacks. Instead, they have this kind of always want to win spirit – sort of I can to this attitude.

So ask yourself whenever you feel like losing or failing – If Boy like Tom can teach the world about something, why can’t you?