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From the Ted Talk by Sue Austin: Deep sea diving ... in a wheelchair

Unscramble the Blue Letters


It's wonderful to be here to talk about my journey, to talk about the wheelchair and the freedom it has bohgut me.

I sreattd using a whhelciear 16 years ago when an extended illness changed the way I could access the world. When I started using the wheelchair, it was a tremendous new freedom. I'd seen my life slip away and become rrecstteid. It was like having an enormous new toy. I could whiz around and feel the wind in my face again. Just being out on the street was exhilarating.

But even though I had this newfound joy and freedom, people's reaction completely changed towards me. It was as if they couldn't see me anymore, as if an inlbiitiivsy cloak had descended. They seemed to see me in terms of their assumptions of what it must be like to be in a wheelchair. When I asekd people their associations with the wheelchair, they used words like "limitation," "fear," "pity" and "restriction." I realized I'd iranzineetld these responses and it had changed who I was on a core level. A part of me had become aeanltied from myself. I was seeing myself not from my perspective, but vliivdy and continuously from the perspective of other people's responses to me.

Open Cloze


It's wonderful to be here to talk about my journey, to talk about the wheelchair and the freedom it has ______ me.

I _______ using a __________ 16 years ago when an extended illness changed the way I could access the world. When I started using the wheelchair, it was a tremendous new freedom. I'd seen my life slip away and become __________. It was like having an enormous new toy. I could whiz around and feel the wind in my face again. Just being out on the street was exhilarating.

But even though I had this newfound joy and freedom, people's reaction completely changed towards me. It was as if they couldn't see me anymore, as if an ____________ cloak had descended. They seemed to see me in terms of their assumptions of what it must be like to be in a wheelchair. When I _____ people their associations with the wheelchair, they used words like "limitation," "fear," "pity" and "restriction." I realized I'd ____________ these responses and it had changed who I was on a core level. A part of me had become _________ from myself. I was seeing myself not from my perspective, but _______ and continuously from the perspective of other people's responses to me.

Solution


  1. internalized
  2. alienated
  3. vividly
  4. asked
  5. started
  6. bought
  7. wheelchair
  8. restricted
  9. invisibility

Original Text


It's wonderful to be here to talk about my journey, to talk about the wheelchair and the freedom it has bought me.

I started using a wheelchair 16 years ago when an extended illness changed the way I could access the world. When I started using the wheelchair, it was a tremendous new freedom. I'd seen my life slip away and become restricted. It was like having an enormous new toy. I could whiz around and feel the wind in my face again. Just being out on the street was exhilarating.

But even though I had this newfound joy and freedom, people's reaction completely changed towards me. It was as if they couldn't see me anymore, as if an invisibility cloak had descended. They seemed to see me in terms of their assumptions of what it must be like to be in a wheelchair. When I asked people their associations with the wheelchair, they used words like "limitation," "fear," "pity" and "restriction." I realized I'd internalized these responses and it had changed who I was on a core level. A part of me had become alienated from myself. I was seeing myself not from my perspective, but vividly and continuously from the perspective of other people's responses to me.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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underwater wheelchair 3
scuba gear 2
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Important Words


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  30. perspective
  31. reaction
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  34. restricted
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  43. wheelchair
  44. whiz
  45. wind
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  48. world
  49. years