Week 14 - If a person has control over any function, they can also control the computer

 The Principle with disabilities and controlling computers

I wanted to take this opportunity to write about a gamer called "RockyNoHands".

He is a streamer and a gamer in many shooters now, his disability however, is the lack of hands, hence the name. He injured 2 of his vertebrae at a party and lost the ability to control his body. Person who used to do a lot of sports and be hands on in most situations suddenly losing all of that mobility can be very life changing, which it was.

Luckily his brother found a quad-stick online, which improves accessibility to the computer by the using a sort of like a joystick which has 3 holes in it. Into the holes you can either blow air or suck air out and you can move around the joystick in general. There are different combinations you could do with the holes, which are the amount of them you use, you could only use 1 of them or 2 at the same time or all 3. 

Additionally the joystick also recognizes the strength of your suction or blow, so you could perform what is called a "light-sip" or a "light-blow." The total amount of combinations you could make with this quad-stick is up to around 32. Which is very helpful if you are trying to control a computer.

What is amazing is watching him play. He is better at playing without hands, than most are at their prime. It is a true testament to the fact that you can control the computer if you have control over one of your functions.

But I do have to address the fact that, even thought that saying is correct in it's initial sense, it will take a tremendous amount of determination to be able to actually control the computer with just one of your functions. Mostly the will to learn but the determination will have to be there to push through your failures and the difficulty of the situation.

Most people who use the computer, have the capabilities of all their functions will still ignore simple keyboard shortcuts they can easily perform to make their life 5x easier. But they choose not to because they don't want to change from their comfort zone.

For someone with disabilities to take control of the computer like Rocky has, it is truly amazing to see what humans are capable of, if they admit to themselves that they have to learn and they can get better, then they proceed to push through the barriers put in front of them by the thing we call life.

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