“I was always positive and I saw the glass half full,” he points out Georgia Kaltsis At the beginning of her confession in Lili Pyrakis and the podcast “Restart”, to say then that she has learned to behave from her family.
Georgia Kaltsis, Paralympic Fencing, Motivational Speaker, Trainer and Activist, does not look at the “signs”. “When I woke up after the coma I found after the car accident, they announced it to me. But I didn’t get it. Because I had a good example.
There I began to “take them” and “give it back”. So I didn’t let anyone put me in the position of disability. Because being disabled in Greece, there is a picture … to be someone from behind you pushing you and carrying you. I am fully autonomous and disability is in fact the situation we live outside in society.
That is, the problem is that society has no ramps. Disability is the situation I experience daily in Greece because there is no access. In the 10 years I am in the wheelchair there have been changes. But we still have a future in this … It’s not easy to experience, I’m just positive, ”he said.
“I’m glad to be a positive standard”
With her attitude, Georgia Kaltsis tries to set an example to everyone. “I wish I was a role model, I am glad to be a positive and good model for people out there, with and without disabilities. You know what our problem is nowadays … that everyone, but all people, instead of living their own lives, to live what they want, to try to try for them …
Everyone is trying to wrinkle, get into a box, a nice profile, in a photo, something to be widely liked. Why have them all well, that’s a problem. What do you care about.
When they look at me, let’s say, I just greet them. It seems weird to get out of my own car, which is a big car. They seem strange that I’m a young girl … who can be a well -groomed girl. It seems weird to go out and have fun and I’m in a phase why not. They congratulate me that I go to the toilet alone … awesome, “he said.
Georgia Kaltsis talked about her own restart: “The truth is restart the real thing was really when the car accident happened because I died, I died. So real restart there. But also a reality I had to deal with was different. Because while I didn’t see me differently because I was sitting,” I was talking to me? “
I am the same person. They believed that I would change what I want to do. I just tried to adapt it before with now. With the wheel data. I went and did a marathon. But I kept diving, I kept playing basketball that I was playing from a young age. I couldn’t bike, I make a hand. There are other things that if you look for them … we go to the hospitals and see new incidents. To show them that there is a good version of disability, ”he added.