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People who know me say I’m quietly determined, a quiet achiever.

I want to work, drive my own car and grow veggies.

t takes me a while to feel okay to talk with people but I’ve found some good ones.

My cooking journey has been building for the past couple of years and has taken off since Sherri came into my life.

On my ipad there are hundreds of images of my baking, which I enjoy sharing with friends and family.

Sport was a huge part of my life before I became unwell and has been a huge part of my recovery.

I play many different sports, love to encourage my team-mates and enjoy the team experience.

My weeks are full of art moments!

I have held two very successful solo art exhibitions.

I love my arts community!

I work at Parks and Wildlife.

I’m the cleaning man.

I keep things tidy there.

I very much believe for the power of my story.

I couldn’t tell my story before I learnt Rapid Prompting Method.

It’s been most important as it taught me finally that I could communicate.

My book success has spurred me on to write more.

I have so many ideas.

I’m also really keen to get acting and singing opportunities.

I guess I always knew I wanted to be a mum.

I had no idea the road to get there would be so wonderfully complex.

We now have a beautiful daughter.

I’ve worked at Coles for the past four years in the meat section.

I like the people I work with.

I’m proud of having that job.

These days I choose to own my disability and be proud of what it means to me.

My disability means I must live with some big challenges, therefore it has made me courageous.

In three years I want to go to the best UK university I can possibly get into with my school grades.

I knew I found my new home from the moment I pulled up the driveway.

The gracious welcome I experienced from the neighbours across the entire neighbourhood reinvigorated my euphoric appetite to live life.

When I get a new student group, I’m always interested in their background stories, like ‘Why are they here now?’

There’s so much diversity in their stories.

I feel like I’m the learner.

I’ve been here a couple of years now.

I get people to take their shoes off before they come in.

If you give to a community, the community gives back.

Finding my Deaf community and chosen family has allowed me to come into my own.

That’s my greatest achievement.

I have learnt to stand up against people who had low expectations of me.

Movement has always been important for me.

When school was hard, I had to run twice a day.

My achievement is that anything I do, I give it 100% focus.

When I was five back in Vietnam, my goal was to climb trees.

Now I’m a champion power lifter and a tax payer and a parent.

I’m a performer.

I love the arts. I love going to theatre and going to various art galleries.

Creating and performing in my own Fringe show has been the best thing I’ve ever done.