I fell in love with a beautiful woman from Oporto, Susana, who already had 2 daughters. Caui, the eldest, was 8 years old. She spoke alone, loved spinning things that had a rope or a string, never looked in your eyes and she’d be disturbed by the smallest of noises…

How can we judge the behaviour of a child if we are not feeling what he’s feeling? If we’re not inside his skin? — Luis is 10 years old. He’s short, strong and has beautiful blue eyes, just like his mother. He is extremely curious, his eyes analyze every detail when he enters inside a room. Luis has an angelical smile… The first day his parents brought him to our association, they asked us…

My Friends, it is in the hands of each and every one of us (including you) to be ever more present. To avoid judging and to genuinely believe in the potential of each person — yes, with their (oh! so beautiful) unique diferences. To see beyond their physical body, to…

We are transitioning from the Era of Knowledge to the Era of Wisdom, also called the Era of Imagination, the Era of Creativity. We very fortunate to live in an Era of humanity where we start questioning every belief that we inherited from the past. And answering the question: “Where…

Society emphasizes the disability of each person instead of emphasizing the multiple capabilities of each one. Is this what we want? — A blind person understands spoken language faster than a person that can see. Persons with limited mobility have enhanced innovation and creativity because they are used to having to adapt themselves to challenging situations. Those who carry “diferences” (usually called disabilities) are more persistent and are better at solving problems…

Ignorance, negligence, superstition, shame and fear are the main feelings that fuel the lack of understanding people with disabilities. The overwhelming cause is the lack of knowledge of how the observed disability affects the function and behavior of the disabled person. Society catalogues persons for their physical appearance yet assigns…

Historically people with disabilities were considered inferior, as if they were external elements to society. There were times many centuries ago when society believed disability and disease was a divine punishment due to committed sins, and for decades people born with disabilities were thought to be posessed by evil spirits…

What are we? Are we muscles? bones? veins? blood? Are we our brain? Are we our left foot? Are we the skin that encapsules all this? Our body contains 37 Trillion cells and produces 300 Billion cells per day (!!!). Each cell that we have in our bodies has a…

Two of the biggest mysteries of our existence are the smallest thing (smaller than quarks and bossons) and the greatest of them all, the universe and it’s extension. Answers to both these mysteries are coming from the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) in Switzerland. It’s that 27 Km tunnel they built…