Nigerian singer and producer, Cobhams Asuquo, has opened up about his life as a visually impaired artiste.
The ‘One Hit’ hitmaker defined that because of his situation, he works 5 instances tougher than his colleagues.
Talking throughout a latest interview with Hip TV, Cobhams urged individuals residing with disabilities to embrace their actuality and draw energy from it.
He stated, “My consciousness of myself as a blind particular person makes me work 5 instances as exhausting [as others]. As a result of I realised that there’s a stereotype round a blind particular person and the final assumption is that you’re incapable. And due to that, I work exhausting to indicate that I might be able to so many issues.
“I feel it’s completely okay to be blind. Secondly, for all intents and functions, I feel the world has simply gone mushy to a sure diploma. And that’s positive. I feel it’s okay to be delicate. However I feel it’s additionally okay to determine the place you might be and what you might be coping with so that you’re not residing in denial and on the lookout for all types of euphemistic methods and names to name it.
“Name it what it’s. Take care of it for what it’s and guarantee your energy via your incapacity versus all these very fascinating names. Not everyone goes to agree with me and that’s positive.
“I’m comfy with being blind. Typically, we are saying impaired and I feel impaired is nice. My understanding of an impairment is that it’s weak spot, it’s not an entire absence of one thing. So, in case you are impaired, you might be both weakened or unable to completely operate in that functionality. I’m not visually impaired, I don’t have a bit of little bit of imaginative and prescient.
“I’m utterly blind, I can’t see a factor. And that’s completely alright. I’m good with it. As a matter of reality, there’s some darkish humour round it typically and I’m completely good with that. That’s who I’m. And I embrace it. I feel it makes it much more particular that I’ve been capable of dwell the life that I’ve lived and I’ve been capable of do the issues that I’ve accomplished.”