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Name: | Lyla Asif |
Age: | 24 |
Year of the Fix: | 2016 |
Location: | Leeds, West Yorkshire |
Campaign: | To encourage the South Asian community to be more accepting of people with disabilities |
I have cerebral palsy, which means I walk with a limp. Sometimes it can vary from a no limp, to slight limp, to major limp.
I think there is a stigma attached to disability and other illnesses in the South Asian community because as soon as they see that you’ve got a visible difference, they immediately judge you and label you as ill.
Because I have a disability, they think that I’m unable to do anything by myself and I need to be looked after by my mum for the rest of my life.
When you grow up in a heavily Pakistani community, the girls are normally married off in their late teens, but because I’ve got a disability it was always said to me “you’ll be fine, you don’t need to worry about it because you’ll stay at home.”’
With Fixers I want to urge the South Asian community to be more accepting of people with disabilities.
Yes I’ve got a disability, yes I’m different, but I have just as much as a right to be here and exist as much as you, so don’t make me feel like I’m not worth something, when I am.
These Fixers helped me with this Fix:
Chloe Miller
Savannah Sharif
Ben Sykes
Emma Hindley
Teejay Brown
Amy Davis
I would like to thank Middlesex University for helping me with this Fix.
Hannah Carter
Mary-Anne White and Lucy Wills
Shak & Natasha
Macauley Collinson
Becky
Liam Thomas
Shannon Rawlings
Ben Simms
Hafsa Ur-Rehman
Alexandra Garrick
Chelsie Brown
Sam Womack
Tilly and Bella
'Kate'
Me and my friends want young people to know that calories aren't the enemy!
Olivia G
Becky Thorn
Timothy Cranfield
Fixers
Mason Latey