I am disabled, but I wasn’t born disabled. I was involved in a car accident in January 2021 and it damaged my spinal cord and I am a paraplegic. Living with disability, especially in my situation, is still new, is still confusing, but knowing that this is here for the rest of my life, I just have to accept it.

And now, especially for me, living in the township, it is not easy, it is really not easy. It is difficult. The place is muddy, too many people, the houses are close to each other, it is really not healthy for a person with a wheelchair. But, I grew up here, this is the only place that I know, so I’m kind of used to it.

People seem like they don’t understand, or they don’t want to accept people living with disability. What I observed is that when you are disabled, people just take you for granted. Even if you are there with friends and you are speaking, your voice is not heard like a normal person.

Some say that I am in a wheelchair because of witchcraft. Coming from the rural areas, there is a saying that some people they don’t like me because I am getting educated and sort of building my home, whereas in the rural areas, once you have a car and a house, people they see you as a successful person, so now they start being jealous.

They said it was witchcraft by some of the people from the village. But although I believe in that, I understand that, it is not something that I keep in my mind. I just taught myself, that’s what it is, let me move on.