In the sichuan satellite TV "China Positive Energy" program scene, a child who looks like one or two years old is skillfully communicating with the host, which is enough to surprise people, but the unexpected thing is still to come, only to see the entire audience respectfully call him Kang Brother.
Take a closer look at this Kang Brother, who is less than 80 centimeters tall, has a face as tender as a baby, looks like a tiger's head, and is cute. At a young age, the aura is extremely powerful, and I don't know which little fart child is so young and old.
But neither the person who called him Brother Kang nor himself was very serious, and he didn't see the slightest way of joking.
So what's going on? So many adults can call him Kang Ge, what is the origin of this child?
Children turn out to be adults
Through understanding, the unexpected truth emerged, this child who looked to be one or two years old turned 34 this year.
His name is Wu Kang, and he was born in 1988 in Jingzhou, Hubei Province. He is only 72 centimeters tall and weighs only 9 kilograms.
In May 2020, the Guinness Book of World Records for "The Shortest Living Man (Capable of Movement)" was Edward Neo Herndez from Colombia, whose height was 72.10 cm. At that time, Wu Kang was a little shorter than him.
Adults are short in stature, and the first thing the average person thinks of is dwarfism. Dwarfism, also known as short stature, is a stunted body due to inadequate secretion of growth hormone for a variety of reasons.
Wu Kangde is indeed dwarfism, more accurately called pituitary dwarfism. To make matters worse, in addition to dwarfism, he also had epilepsy. This eventually led to him growing only 22 centimeters from birth to the present.
Eternal youth seems to be the ultimate dream of everyone, but it will not grow up and will not grow old, but it is a complete nightmare for Wu Kang.
Because of his figure and childlike appearance, whoever sees him has the first reaction to being a child. Although he could not mature in appearance, his intelligence was normal, so he was extremely reluctant to be called a child.
Perhaps because he is not strong and mature enough, he prefers that others call him Kang Ge, and the sound of Kang Ge can make him realize his dream of growing up.
So, there is an opening scene, and everyone who knows him knows his little idea, so they will call him Kang Ge.
At the scene of the program, Kang Ge's song "Boys Should Be Self-Reliant" made the audience boil. His soft doll voice carried a strong emotion of self-improvement, and his small body exploded with great energy.
Today's Kang Ge is confident and positive, but once he was also suffering and depressed. So what was his life like? How did he get through the tough times?
Before becoming Kango
The story before he became Kang Ge has to start from the time he was born in 1988.
The process of Wu Kang's birth can be described as extremely difficult. His mother was only 19 years old at the time of childbirth and had no experience giving birth to him before giving birth. Unfortunately, Heaven did not take care of her, and she suffered a difficult birth for her first birth.
In the 1980s, the medical environment in our country was still very backward, and doctors recommended that mothers use oxytocin to promote the contraction of the smooth muscles of the uterus and make the production process smoother.
Under the action of oxytocin, Xiao Wu Kang fell to the ground, and the mother and child were safe. He is 50 cm long and very normal. The failure of the birth to go well, so that the parents have only one expectation for him, that is, health. Therefore, his parents named him Wu Kang.
Wu Kang still lived up to the name. Since birth, he has been frail and sickly. At a young age, he has been to hospitals large and small, and it is rare to be hospitalized seven or eight times a year. Although he has been a regular visitor to the hospital since he was a child, he grew up safely under the careful care of his parents.
It is reasonable to say that the father is 170 cm tall, the mother is 164 cm tall, and the height of the parents is also high, so how can Wu Kang be related to dwarfism?
This also began when he was two years old, when a sudden high fever also led to the fact that he had dwarfism due to pituitary abnormalities.
Pity the hearts of his parents in the world, Wu Kang's parents knew the cause of the disease, did not give up the treatment of him, often took him to Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan and other major hospitals for treatment.
There is only one treatment that can be obtained, that is, a shot of one thousand yuan of growth hormone.
In the 1990s, a thousand yuan could be built in the countryside to build a small house.
But this was the only hope of treatment, Wu Kang's parents gritted their teeth, sold the valuable furniture in the family, and sold everything they could sell, just to make up for his treatment.
The kung fu paid off, and Wu Kang managed to grow 3 centimeters taller after three months of treatment. Don't look at this 3 centimeters is not much, but for dwarfism patients is a qualitative leap.
In order to treat Wu Kang's illness, the family has long been surrounded by disciples. 3 centimeters is not hope for the Wu family. They understood the difficulty of dwarfism treatment, and they also knew that it would be difficult for Wu Kang to reach the height of a normal person if he continued to treat.
With little hope, coupled with the plight of poverty caused by illness, their continued treatment of Wu Kang gradually changed from the original firmness to gradually wavering.
Finally, under the torment of great physical and mental pressure, the family made the most painful decision in their lives, that is, to give up the treatment of Wu Kang.
Since then, he has been frozen in the appearance of a year or two old.
In 1993, Wu Kang's younger brother Wu Fei was born. When parents learned that they were pregnant with their second child, they could be said to be mixed.
Joy is the arrival of new life, which brings new hope to the family; sorrow is the fear of his brother's fate as his.
Fortunately, their concerns slowly disappeared as their brother was born and raised healthily. Wu Fei is not only tall, but also has a great sense of responsibility.
Because of his appearance, Wu Kang was not less talked about by good people, and they finished talking, but Wu Kang was inferior and depressed because of this.
Every time Wu Fei saw his brother being ridiculed, he was always the first to rush out to defend his brother. Growing up, the brothers always helped each other and loved each other.
The arrival of his brother sprinkled a lot of sugar on Wu Kang's life, but as his brother grew up, his parents devoted themselves to work in order to earn money and support their families.
His parents were afraid that Wu Kang would be bored at home and unable to take care of himself, so they sent him to kindergarten.
However, as he grew older, his body developed as before, and his mind had matured. He knows that he and the kindergarten children are two kinds of people, so he hates being called a child and is very dissatisfied with his father's behavior of sending him to the kindergarten.
Perhaps wanting to prove that he has grown up, Wu Kang's favorite thing to do every day is to go to the commissary at the door to buy snacks, and the feeling of going out alone and checking out on his own makes him feel that he is a normal person.
For this annoyance of going to kindergarten, Wu Kang can still soothe his mood through his own methods.
But there are always many unsatisfactory things in life, and he also has problems that he can't solve no matter what, that is, there is an irreparable rift in the relationship between his parents.
Wu Kang has been in poor health since childhood, Wu Fei has to go to school again, and money is used for big and small things in the family.
The burden on the parents' shoulders was too heavy, and the huge pressure for a long time made both of their tempers become irritable and irritable. Some people relieve stress by going out to eat and drink, and some people are distracted by traveling, but Wu Kang's mother has used a wrong way, that is, gambling.
As the saying goes: gambling is the bane, harming others and harming oneself.
In the beginning, the mother was still moderate and knew how to take care of the brothers.
But before long, the mother was like a new person, the class was not on, and she didn't pay attention to the family. She was completely trapped in gambling and couldn't help herself.
In order to earn money, my father went out to work and did not often return home. Since their mother became addicted to gambling, the brothers have been hungry and hungry, eating irregularly.
This situation is unbearable for healthy people, not to mention The frail And sickly Wu Kang.
After all, the paper could not contain the fire, because of the irregular diet, Wu Kang's blood sugar was wrong.
Therefore, the father soon learned what his mother had done, and suddenly he was out of breath and had a big fight with his mother.
If the quarrel can solve the problem, it means that the situation is not bad.
Unfortunately, the outbreak of this quarrel has made the couple's hearts drift farther and farther away. The old man often said: Poor and lowly couples mourn, and Wu Kang's parents are no exception. The life of chai rice oil and salt has long worn away the initial love of the two people, and the big and small things in life may become the fuse of the quarrel between the two people.
Can such a day go on? The answer is no.
In 2004, the couple ended their painful marriage amid day-to-day quarrels. Wu Kang and Wu Fei were cared for by their fathers and have since become children of a single-parent family.
When his parents divorced, Wu Kang was almost an adult, and although he still looked like a child, his mind was more mature than that of his peers.
His parents' divorce hit him hard, and he often missed his mother.
But when he saw that his father was busy making money and taking care of their brothers, it made him understand that he had to be strong, so he rarely showed his motherly feelings, and always slowly digested his emotions alone.
It wasn't until the appearance of a woman that he changed this state, and also made the brothers feel the long-lost maternal love.
This woman is her father's first love, and her name is Song Fengying.
The two met and fell in love at a young age, but for various reasons, they could not have a satisfactory result. Years later, after a chance encounter, the two discover that they are both single.
Perhaps, God favored this pair of former lovers who had experienced hardships, so they arranged this encounter. They eventually married and never wanted to be separated again.
The brothers were initially quite repulsive to this new stepmother, but as they spent more time together, they gradually found that the stepmother was kind and gentle, so they slowly accepted her.
In this way, the family lived an ordinary and simple happy life.
To say who is the happiest in this family, it is Wu Kang.
Why?
That's because every family member is silently guarding him in their own way. From the trivia of squeezing toothpaste for him every day, to giving him a lifelong commitment to take care of him.
Naturally, his father's love does not need to be elaborated, and he can almost say that he has devoted all his efforts to Wu Kang.
His younger brother Wu Fei also loved this brother in his heart, and even in order to give his brother a chance to heal, he gave up the computer major he was most interested in and chose to study medicine.
His stepmother treats him as his own, and his basic life depends on his stepmother.
After my brother went to college, his father and reporters took Wu Kang to college once.
The reporter asked: "Do you want to become a college student?" ”
His eyes revealed longing and envy, and he said a word lightly: "Think." ”
The reason why his father took him to college was to hope that Wu Kang would understand that he treated his two sons equally and would not have any dissatisfaction with him because of his disability.
On the contrary, in order to enable him to live independently, his father often taught him to read and write himself. The father's good intentions are touching.
Of course, Wu Kang can understand his father's heart, because he himself is also a person with a sense of responsibility and responsibility.
He is not jealous because his brother has school, on the contrary, he knows that his brother's schooling costs a lot, so he wants to support himself and reduce the burden on his family by his own efforts.
Disabled
How to support yourself, Wu Kangsi wanted to go, there was only one way, that is, part-time work. Part-time work is a fantasy for Wu Kang, who is 72 centimeters tall, uneducated and unskilled, and his family has expressed strong opposition to his idea. They only wantEd Wu Kang to live in good health.
Don't look at Wu Kangren is small, but the idea is big. The opposition of his family had long been expected by him. He insisted on going his own way, taking advantage of his family's lack of attention and going out to find a job.
As a result, it can be imagined that the bosses looking for a job for this "child" are from surprise to repeatedly waving their hands to refuse.
From childhood to adulthood, no matter what he did, Wu Kang was always rejected because of physical defects, and he was a professional household that was rejected out and out.
Therefore, he has a good psychological endurance for repeated rejections of finding a job. He was not discouraged, and when he was rejected, he looked for another home. He paid off, and he was hired by a restaurant whose main job was cleaning and hygiene.
When the restaurant is busy, Wu Kang has to keep spinning like a top to complete the task. Because of his short stature, he worked harder than others.
Even so, he never slackened or complained, it was a job he had worked hard to get, and he cherished it unusually.
Of course, the cleaning work is not a long-term plan, and it cannot be done for a while, and Wu Kang knows this very well.
So, in his spare time, he will also develop his hobby - puzzles. After years of hard work, he has successfully turned his interest into a career.
Today, he has no problem subsistence by designing puzzles.
In addition to developing a jigsaw puzzle business, Wu Kang is also keen to share his experience with everyone, so that more people can find hope for life.
He has participated in the recording of programs such as "China's Positive Energy" and "Big King and Little King". While he is looking for self-meaning, he also allows more people to understand the connotation of life.
epilogue
God closed a door for Wu Kang, but he forcefully opened a window. He was both unfortunate and fortunate. His misfortune was innate, and before the suffering that he was powerless to change, he did not give up on himself, but chose to open to the sun.
The self-abandoning one cannot afford to support it, and the self-reliant cannot be defeated. Behind each self-reliant, we cannot ignore the power of family love. It is precisely because they hold up the wall of suffering that there is a world for the suffering.
Life cannot be smooth sailing, and suffering is calm, and perhaps life will have unexpected surprises waiting for you.