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Hello my name is Justin Hammond I work for Leicester City Council and I am a Business Transition Manager
which basically means I work for adult social care
trying to help move adult social care into where it needs to be for the future.
The biggest barriers that young disabled people face tends to be society really.
Some of the barriers are just what people think they can't.
So for me, my barrier as I was growing up was because I am dyslexic, I struggle with reading and writing
in fact when I was seven I couldn't read or write at all.
So it was seen that I wasn't really going to be able to do very much as I got older
and my parents fought a lot with the school because the school said that I wouldn't get any GCSE's and I really wouldn't amount to very much.
As I got older and I realised that there were lots of other disabled people with dyslexia that were doing lots of fantastic things in their life,
I realised that the barrier was my barrier and I needed to overcome that. The barrier wasn't what other people were telling me.
I had to believe that I wanted to do something and then I had to make it happen for myself.
The advice I would give any young disabled person or any adult for that matter
would be to think about what you really want and then go for it.
Don't let anything stop you at all.
It is really important that you believe in yourself, that you listen to the right people,
that you look at things that are really positive around you,
that you find the things you are good at and then you focus on those.
And when something is a bit hard you understand what that really means
and why it's hard and then find a way of getting round it.
Don't let it stop you from doing the things you want to do.