If You're Hungover This Morning, Just Remember At Least You're Not The Guy With An Upside Down Head
Say Cheeeeeeese!
(Source) A man born with physical disabilities so severe his head is UPSIDE-DOWN has defied the odds to become an inspirational public speaker. Claudio Vieira de Oliveira, 37, was born with his neck is folded back on itself, as well as badly deformed legs and almost no use of his arms and hands.
Doctors told his mother to stop feeding him as a newborn as they believed he had no chance of survival. But Claudio from Monte Santo, Brazil, has overcome his extreme disadvantages to graduate as an accountant and become a public speaker. Claudio said: “Since I was a child I’ve always liked to keep myself busy and work – I don’t like to depend totally on other people. “I do a bit of accounting, research for clients and consulting. “I have learned to turn on the TV, pick up my cell phone, turn on the radio, use the internet, my computer – I do it all by myself.”
Claudio types with a pen held in his mouth, operates phones and a computer mouse with his lips and has specially made shoes that allow him to move around town. His determined independence saw him succeeding at school and qualifying as an accountant from the State University of Feira de Santana. When Claudio was born, doctors told his mother Maria Jose he would not be able to survive. Maria Jose said: “People started saying ‘the baby is going to die’ because he could barely breathe when he was born. “Some people would say: ‘Don’t feed him, he is already dying’. “But there’s only happiness now. Claudio is just like any other person – that’s how he was raised in this house. “We never tried to fix him and always wanted him to do the normal things everyone else does. “That’s why he is so confident. He is not ashamed of walking around in the street – he sings and he dances.”
Little perspective to start your day. So you drank too much, you stayed out in the sun too long, summer is now over and the winter is coming. Kind of sucks right? Well sure, but you know what sucks even more? Having your head on upside down for your entire life. Think about that. Take your head, now flip it upside down. That’s you. No bueno. So just remember, you may hate your life at this present moment but sometimes life is about the little things, like having a head placed on your shoulders correctly and not like some fucked up Mr. Potato Head experiment gone horribly wrong.
In all seriousness, I love how good of an attitude this guy has. Have to respect being able to make lemonade out of lemons here. I’m pretty sure I would just cry into my butt crack for the rest of time if my head was upside down.
PS
Having an upside down head and hanging around adults with braces so you’re not the weird one, old hockey trick.
