One incident affected her deeply, as she describes in her TED speech, ‘One day I came across this polio advertisement in which a little boy from a very underprivileged family was sitting on a wheelchair. And with him seated was his father crying, and saying to the world: “Give your children polio drops, or they’ll become like him.” That advertisement shook me from inside. I felt devastated. The way that boy was objectified as an emblem of grief, misery, mercy, lifelessness, nothingness… Such a wrong picture being portrayed in media about persons with disabilities. That’s what we are called.
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