We’re not crying, you’re crying. This might restore your faith in humanity for a moment. Brazilian super-mom Lau Patrón is seen pushing her son, João Vicente through a skatepark. João has had cerebral palsy since suffering a stroke as a young child. Patrón always wanted to make sure he could do what he really wanted in life: get on his board.
“He is a boy full of wills, desires, dreams,” she wrote on an Instagram page she runs for her son. “One of them was for a long time skateboarding…For children who have cerebral palsy, or any other kind of disability, having desires and dreams is not allowed. The world is always telling us no. We must not, we cannot, it will not work, there is no adaptation. We do not belong. For a long time, I tried to supply this dream (for) John with bikes, walkers, electric double skate(boards)…Nothing worked.”
That’s when Patrón met the guys at Skate Anima. Daniel Paniagua and Stevan Pinto, who run the organization that provides mobility options for physically challenged skaters, apparently helped outfit João with a mobile walker/platform that allows him to skate with his mom’s help near their home in Curitiba, the capital of the southern state of Paraná. The video has gone fairly viral. You can see why. João is having the time of his life.
