A football player in her free time, Softaware Engineer suffered total vision loss in childhood
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Geisa Farini was born visually impaired. At the age of 13 she completely stopped seeing and had to completely change her routine to adapt to the reality of the blind. She currently uses her social networks, which have almost 300 thousand followers, to share her daily life and help new blind people.
“The idea was born on a YouTube channel, to show people who don’t know the life of a person with a disability, which is a natural life. My idea has always been to naturalize disability. I never wanted to be a example of overcoming, but rather, demonstrate that my daily life is normal, that I make my adjustments, but that I have a life like everyone else. This ‘superheroine’ thing is very ugly and heavy, to most people who have disabilities don’t like it,” Geisa said in an interview with Earthremembering that the majority of your audience are people who have recently lost their sight.
In addition to talking about fashion, beauty and wellness on her Instagram and TikiTok, with the help of a content creator, Geisa has started giving advice on accessible apps and assistive technologies to her followers who often turn to her for help.
“I am a normal person, not perfect, but my limits are almost always not linked to blindness, they are linked to things about the human being that I am. A person with a disability can be wherever he wants. Of course, there will be more challenges, because the world is not prepared to receive us, but we must occupy these spaces and fight for the right to be what we want,” said the software engineer, graduate and postgraduate in Systems Analysis.
Geisa carries into her adult life, at the age of 35, the memories of when she was spotted as a child. Football is present in many of these memories. At the age of seven her first major loss occurred. Her father, Antônio Carlos, died after suffering a serious car accident. A passionate Fluminense fan, he instilled a passion for sport in his daughter.
The love inherited from her father for football led the girl to use sport as an outlet. Since she was a teenager, Geisa has been playing soccer, running and sharing her fitness routine with her followers.
When he lived in Rio de Janeiro he frequented the Maracanã and São Januário, home of Vasco da Gama, his favorite team. In Sao Paulo, where she has lived since 2020, she has visited Morumbi and toured stadiums on several trips she has made alone through South America and Europe.
“When I went to England I was very disappointed, because there they don’t have many cultural resources for people with visual impairments. They want you to be with a companion and they don’t provide a guide in a museum or theater. I was turned away from the Museum of the London Waxes, they didn’t let me in because I had to be accompanied, even though I was traveling alone, so I decided to go to the Chelsea stadium, which was an easy place to reach by tube, and I was surprised, because they welcomed me very much “Well, they did the Stamford Bridge tour with me, I went into the tunnel and the pitch and got to see things first hand. My best experience in England in terms of entertainment was in a football stadium,” he said.
Geisa plays ball every week on a pitch provided by the Association of Parents and Friends of the Blind (APADEV). He explained that many donations are made to buy sports equipment and pay the professionals who help them in the matches. While waiting for women’s football for the blind to officially become a Paralympic sport, she has fun with her teammates.
Calls for the Brazilian Confederation of Sports for the Blind (CBDV) to encourage blind women’s football in the country, as the entity does not have a calendar for women’s competitions.
“I’m happy to be a pioneer in a sport that is still very overlooked, but we are resilient and I want other girls to have this opportunity to play too. We are here to fight for the opportunity to reach women without disabilities, as well as women with disability. Football is fun and pleasure, but for me it is resistance and equality”, he concluded.
Source: Terra
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