yeah joining us now is Amy Cecil and
Kirsten O'Conner Amy we have been
watching that video since November I
think it was right and the reaction
saying that Joseph was able to meet
Shekinah Griffin to a must have been
just so great for you as well oh yeah I
was just so excited for their family it
was so awesome for them and I just knew
that they were kind of having this
pivotal moment of meeting the person
that was you know just this icon for
them this idol somebody they could look
up to for their son and they could show
their son that he's not gonna have
limits imposed on him that he's gonna
create his own destiny and he can decide
you know what he can do and I was really
thrilled for them here soon we've been
watching the story over and over again I
was saying that Isla watched it a few
times last night
what reaction are you getting from this
I mean I know that this was so special
for you to put together of all the
people that have reached out to me and
to Amy and to the lucky fin project on
Instagram and Facebook and all over the
country in the world I had a friend from
a former TV station who recognized that
I did this story and wanted to hear more
about the lucky thin project and had
never had something like that in his
life and I know Amy that was something
that you shared too when you first were
introduced to it yeah growing up I only
knew one other person who was a guy who
was missing his his arm from about his
elbow but it's kind of different you
know then then having a girlfriend or
something so I've never literally until
that day that Orlando meet up I had
never met another woman who was missing
her hand or missing her arm and so that
was like 34 years in the making and just
that day was so emotional for me because
it was like wow a meeting not only this
other woman who's missing a limb but I'm
also with all of these families of
little ones who are looking to me and
saying what's your experience and how
was it like for you and it was just I
couldn't even put into words what it was
like for 34 years of just kind of
waiting to find a community I didn't
know it existed until I was 34 years old
you know so finding that community was
almost like walking through the Wardrobe
in Narnia
finding nobody on the other side of the
Wardrobe you know is like I was living
this one life
very isolated and just didn't know
anybody else and then I was like walking
through the Wardrobe and there on the
other side was this whole world of all
these people that I didn't know existed
and they're all amazing and you know you
go go on the Facebook page go on the
Facebook page and just see how awesome
all of these people are what they're
doing with their lives what they've been
able to accomplish what they're capable
of
it's just so cool I'm like I have a
whole world now I have a whole family
like throughout the world all connected
on Facebook all connected through lucky
fin project and how can people get
involved with lucky fin project well
there's a Facebook page so I have it
here on my my little band here ww lucky
fin project org but also I would seek
out the Facebook page you know you can
ask Molly to join Molly as a founder
lucky fin project and you can just see
all of the awesome people that are there
families can connect and then once they
connect with the national page they will
also be able to find state and local
chapters so there's a Florida lucky fin
paté lucky fin project page which is
what I was introduced to and that's how
we had a meet-up for the people in
Florida so Orlando just happened to be
the place that it was hosted but that
way they can connect with other people
possibly potentially that might be in
their area and actually meet face to
face which is you know just so awesome
Amy do you feel like it's a hidden topic
limb differences oh yes and this story
and Shekinah Griffin success has helped
to kind of reveal how many people out
there are hiding yeah she came Griffin
is really I think opening a lot of
people's eyes I think nobody wants to
talk about it because it's very
uncomfortable for them but it really
shouldn't be I think we just need to
change the dialogue and need to changing
it from something negative to just
talking about different doesn't have to
be bad different is just different so
you know when I was growing up there was
nothing like this and the world was very
different I experienced a lot of
bullying and we still live in that world
especially with social media we struggle
with having you know just another outlet
for people to be unfortunately unkind
but the more we changed the dialogue the
more movies like wonder come out and
start teaching us about you know how to
treat people who are different once we
start realizing what people are capable
of and we start changing the dialogue to
saying you know okay what are their
abilities rather than their
you know changing it to well they're not
disabled at you know as Colleen says
they're just different abled I do
everything I just do it differently so I
think if we stop feeling so
uncomfortable about talking about it and
we just dialogue in a different more
positive way it will it will just change
the game and we'll be able to teach our
kids who aren't limb different how to be
compassionate and loving and accepting
and then we can teach those kids who are
living different how to incorporate into
a world that's different than them but
make it their own I love when you say
different isn't bad different it's just
different I mean that is just you know
great that that's my motto I'll be
teaching my daughter as well it's
wonderful and amy has so much more to
share with us so we'll be continuing to
follow with her and waited and miles and
of course Joseph oh yeah we can't wait
to hear but yeah we feel like you're
part of the family at this point
thank you I'm so appreciative thank you
I look forward to following up with you
guys and seeing what seeing what the
future holds yeah thank you so much
thank you