“I was born with my disability and my early teenage years I actually hated having a disability. It was really tough for me,” Alcott told ABC AM’s Sabra Lane on Tuesday, the International Day of People with Disability. Australian wheelchair basketballer, tennis player and three-time gold medal paralympian gold medallist Dylan Alcott has spoken about how he “hated having a disability” when younger, but grew to embrace himself over the years after he started playing sport. “Without that, I probably wouldn’t have found sport and if I didn’t find sport, I can assure you, you and I would not be speaking today,” he said. The program aims to help more Australians with a disability stay active, with education programs delivered to schools and local sport clubs.

Source: Huffington Post December 03, 2019 04:30 UTC