The wheelchair and me

a deep sigh ...

Burning eyes,
a silent sob ...
Confused thoughts,
impotence and shame.
Cut off from the world,
lonely and alone.
Fly ... but where
Damn ... walking is over.

Be courageous and strong,

make a new start.
Learn to go sitting,
enter that wheelchair.
Discover soon
you’ll run fast,
without making a step.

People look down on you ...

rather talk with a "stander",
about you and how.
You feel rage and pain ...
words get stuck.

To be a child and small ...

is to show your will power.
My "IQ" is equal ... to yours.
You need neither shun me,
nor push me about.
Because ... me and my wheelchair ...
attain our end together!

Y.L.van Muilekom
This human figure consists of two sheets
The top part of the body should start white side down to get a white ’shirt’
The bottom part should be color down to get colored trousers
Designed because I needed two white/black dressed people to my wheelchair

1 Top part of body 2

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13 Top part of body finished

14 Bottom part of body; precrease

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18 Bottom part of body finished 19 Insert bottom part in top part

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22 Fold inside 23 Form arms and legs

24 Form hands 25 Form feet

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back

front

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8 Dark area 9 Swivel bottom front
is double around line in seat
(through dots)

View in
front bottom part

10 11 Fold triangles 12 Form seat and

and lock with fold bottom
next fold layer back

13 Front wheels 14
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18 Handles on top of back 19

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