A large number of international examples have proved that the effective ways to relieve autism are exercise, care and companionship. Through exercise, autistic children can not only develop strong physical functions, but also get positive stimulation to the brain, feel happy and comfortable, and maintain a good mental state.
In order to integrate autistic families into society, get along happily with ordinary families, and help the children of the stars to open their hearts and get out of the lonely world, a real runner, by integrating social love forces such as enterprises, training schools, healing institutions and volunteer service providers, arouses the world's attention and care for autistic people and families with his ultimate running behavior art.
Deng Chao
◆ Founder of Running Charity Marathon for Love
◆ 20 15 Guangzhou Marathon Publicity Ambassador.
◆ AIA Guangzhou Health Ambassador
An avid runner, a person full of love and positive energy, is also a charity runner.
For Deng Chao, the meaning of life lies in love and memory, and everything else is just luggage.
Deng Chao said: Every life can be in full bloom, and every life should be in full bloom in spring.
By chance, he paid attention to autism. However, what really captured his heart was not the disease itself, but that there were more than140,000 autistic people in China. Imagine that an autistic person affects at least six family members (father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, grandfather, etc. ), that is to say, nearly 100 million people in China live in pain and despair of life, but one person in every 14 suffers, and you will suffer for life. Because most families with autism can't get in touch with society normally because of secular ideas and even social tolerance, autism is not terrible, but the human heart, or if they can't get out of their inner world, a normal person may be an "autistic".
Shi Tiesheng said: This bank must be incomplete, or another bank will fail.
Everyone has defects, just like an apple bitten by God. Some people have bigger flaws because God especially likes his scent!
In the early spring of 20 1 1, that is, after Deng's first horse-Beijing Marathon, a non-profit organization found him at that time and hoped that he would donate money to children with congenital heart disease. Deng Chao believes that such charitable activities may not be sustainable. What he really wants to do is to infect more people to participate in caring activities through running, and to care for these marginalized vulnerable groups.
Running for Love lasted for eight years. It should be emphasized that at first, the formal marathon events in China did not accept the independent registration of autistic runners, but it is gratifying that after years of efforts, some event organizing committees now not only accept the independent registration of autistic runners to participate in the urban road marathon, but also begin to send invitations to autistic runners who "run for love".
Whenever talking about children with autism, Deng Chao said the most: "Every child is cute, so we should pay more attention to them." . Yes, autistic children seem to be far away from us. In fact, they are very close to us. We are alienating them, not us.
Autistic children show language communication barriers, social barriers and other behaviors. Therefore, ordinary people will look at them differently, even afraid of being hurt by them, but it is actually our different eyes that hurt them and cause the gap between people.
People who have seen Forrest Gump will be moved by Forrest Gump's perseverance, and there is China Gump in the "Running for Love" running group. He is Wu, an older mentally handicapped young runner who can finish the half marathon independently.
Through running, not only did Zong Tai become a confident runner from an older mentally handicapped youth, but his mother, who was nearly sixty years old, also became a runner. Zong Tai's mother also led other parents of autistic families to run together.
Especially in the 50-kilometer cross-country race of Guangzhou Good Walker sponsored by China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation last year, the average age of Zong Tai's mother's "Running for Love" team was 49.8 years old, which was the oldest among more than 200 teams, but she ran 26th and successfully raised money for China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation.
Through Running for Love, Zong Tai's mother changed from a mother of a mentally retarded child who was helped by others to a mother who tried her best to help more marginalized and vulnerable groups.
Deng Chao said: "This is a qualitative leap. For us, it is because of love that we take steps to run. "
In Deng Chao's view, participating in the marathon is not to let these children deliberately prove anything, "just to tell people that they can do what normal people can do".
Deng Chao was once asked by the media whether he wanted to raise money by "running for love".
"No, actually my bigger wish is not to raise money! Because poverty and disability are not the basic reasons for a patient or a family to get help from others, I hope that through the performance art such as "Running for Love", the children and families of the stars will return to the mainstream society with dignity, and the embarrassing autistic families will have a stable and happy life in the future through the Star Mom business plan! "
On this road of love, Deng Chao seems to be a missionary, influencing everyone he meets with love and saying with his heart: Let's always be on the road, on the track, with tears in our eyes forever. ...
Talking about the future, Deng Chao said that he would continue to run for the protection of "children of the stars". He said that there are 525,600 minutes in a year, and it passes quickly. What year? What about the rest of his life? Can you use every minute of his life to run, to measure his own life, to care for the life of the stars …