A local man with a learning disability is going to great lengths to help other people like him live their best life.
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HE IS HELPING SHAREHIS STORY - WHILE CHANGINGPERCEPTIONS OF PEOPLE WITHSPECIAL NEEDS.
ONLY ON FIVEMEGHAN MCROBERTS REPORTS--HE'S LANDED THE RIGHTS TO ASPECIAL MOVIE... WITH A BIGMESSAGE.< THE VIDEO SCREENING WILL BEHERE TOMORROW AFTERNOON ATIRSC IN FORT PIERCE& IT'SCALLED INTELLIGENT LIVES...AND SHOWS HOW PEOPLE WITHLEARNING DISABILITIES HAVE ANIMPORTANT PLACE IN SOCIETY...WITH A LOT TO CONTRIBUTE.“TOMORROWMICHAEL LINCOLN PUTTING THEFINAL TOUCHES ON A EVENT HEHAS SPEARHEADED FOR MONTHS.“MY GOAL IS TO FILL THIS ROOMUP TO CAPACITY” A SCREENIOF A VIDEO& THAT IMPACTSEVERYONE IN THIS ROOM.
THEYEITHER HAVE OR HELP PEOPLEWITH INTELLECTUALDISABILITIES& MICHAEL..
WITHHELP OF IRSC STAFF& LANDED THERIGHTS TO SHOW INTELLIGENTLIVES& NATS THE VIDEO&SHOWCASES SEVERAL PEOPLE WITHINTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES&GOING THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL.COLLEGE AND CAREERS.“I JUWANT PEOPLE TO COME WITH OPEHEARTS AND TO ACCEPT THEMESSAGE BECAUSE HONESTLY ITA GOOD THING FOR PEOPLE WISPECIAL NEEDS” MICHAEL SAYTHE ST.
LUCIE COUNTY SHERIFFOFFICE, FIRE DEPARTMENT,SEVERAL POLICE DEPARTMENTS, ANDTHE SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARE AMONGTHE GROUPS WHO HAVE RSVPTHE MORE PEOPLE THE STORY CANREACH- HE SAYS- THE BETTER.“IT FEELS GOOD BECAUSESHOWS PEOPLE CARE ABOUT PEOPLEWITH SPECIAL NEEDS ON THETREASURE COAST” MICHAEL HASBEEN AN ADVOCATE FOR PEOPLEWITH SPECIAL NEEDS AFTER GOINGTHROUGH HIS OWN STRUGGLES WHENHE WAS UNDER THE WATCH OF ASTATE- ISSUED GUARDIAN.“ITALL COMES BACK TO MY STORYWHEN I WAS IN A GUARDIANSHIPAND I WAS MISTREATED AND TAKENADVANTAGE OF AS A PERSON WITHDISABILITY” EVENTUALLY& HEWON LEGAL FIGHTS TO LET HIMLEAVE THE GUARDIAN PROGRAM&AND LIVE MOSTLYINDEPENDENTLY..
HELPING HIMMAKE MORE OF HIS OWNDECISIONS... EVEN LANDING HISDREAM JOB AS A STATE SECURITYGUARD.“I NEVER THOUGHT IN AMILLION DREAMS THAT I WOULD BEA SECURITY GUARD FOR THE STATEAND THE FACT THAT IACCOMPLISHED THAT GOAL IS ABIG DEAL” HIS SUCCESS-SOMETHING HE WANTS OTHERPEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS TOASPIRE TO.
AND A COMMUNITY&BE MORE OPEN TO.“THATEXPLAINS ONE OF THE REASONIANYONE CAN DO ANYTHING AS LONGAS THEY PUT THEIR MIND TO IT”THE SCREENING IS TOMORROW FROM3:30 TO SIX HERE AT IRSC....IT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THEPUBLIC.
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