Born with a serious brain disease, Wesley Wee, a middle-aged man finds it difficult to control most of his muscles. He is 1 in a wheelchair due to the language barrier and inability to dress or feed himself, so writing a book seems out of the 2. However, as you can imagine, his3disabilities didn't stop the ambitious man from spending five years 4every letter in his inspiring book, Finding Happiness Against the Odds, with just his big right toe. And the book will be 5 later this month. "With my story, I want to tell others with disability not to 6 hope. If I had given up hope, I wouldn't behere today, "he said.
Growing up, Wesley faced 7 from his own family who were embarrassed about his condition. His mother would hit him and say, "You are good for 8. It is better you die. "His father forced him to do a one-hour 9 every night, in an attempt to make him walk normally. At one point, life became too much to 10 for Wesley, and he attempted to take his own life not once but four times.
11, his grandmother loved him. She cared for him on weekends and 12 he received an education at the Spastic Children's Association even though hisparents thought it would be wasted on him.
Now Wesley has bigger dreams 13 earning just $1, 000 a month and he refuses to apply for government aid. He wants to 14 his own shoe business and hopefully after making profits he can adopt a disabled child. For now, he is focused on publishing his book and 15 others.
