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In 2022, a young man named Max Lee went viral on the Internet, and he always smiled in front of the camera to introduce his life of delivering takeaways, which attracted a lot of people's attention.
His original name was Li Shicheng and he was a native of Shanghai. Their family owns three sets of demolition houses, with a total price of up to 20 million, and he is a veritable "demolition of the second generation".
Lee Se-seung
But he went viral on the Internet, not because his family had money. Rather, as a "mentally retarded", he is still not afraid of the prejudice and ridicule of others and insists on living seriously.
He has been working as a food delivery for five years, working diligently every day, and the customers around him praise him.
He was optimistic and cheerful in front of the camera to introduce the bits and pieces of his life to everyone, and shared his work experience with everyone, and people were touched by his love for life.
It should be known that people with disabilities need to pay more sweat and effort than normal people at work. Why is he already so rich that he has to work so hard to deliver food? It starts with his bumpy childhood.
White-eyed campus time
In 1994, Li Shicheng's mother gave birth to him in a hospital in Shanghai when she suffered an accident. The unfortunate thing of an umbilical cord wrapped around his neck happened to him. At that time, his neck was strangled by the umbilical cord, causing his face to turn blue, purple, and not crying.
Originally, the medical staff thought that he could not survive and was ready to inform the family of this bad news. Fortunately, a nurse sister noticed that his fingers were moving and immediately sent him to the rescue, which saved the young life.
Yet he still did not escape the fate of most umbilical cord-around-neck babies. The doctor told his parents that this problem would cause the baby's brain to lack oxygen, and it was likely to fall into the root of intellectual disability.
His parents did not want to believe this fact and kept praying that their child would be the lucky one who was not entangled in the disease and could grow up healthy.
But when he was 6 months old, he still showed a difference from other normal children. When the other children began to slowly learn to talk and walk, he could only make a babbling sound.
He called out his first mother very late, and his learning speed was far behind that of normal people. His behavior left his parents with no way to deceive themselves, and their children were healthy. His parents took him to the big hospital for a review, and As a result, Li Shicheng was diagnosed with stunting by the doctor.
Supposedly, if it is only developmental delay, in fact, the result is not too bad. His parents believe he can slowly lead a normal life, just maybe it may take a little more time. However, Li Shicheng's elementary school life shattered the hopes of his family.
In elementary school, he could not keep up with the growth of children of the same age. In the classroom, he could not understand the teacher's lessons, and he could not keep up with the teacher's teaching speed. The same knowledge, he needs to spend several times more time than other children to understand.
When he was 8 years old, he encountered great difficulties in learning, and he could not do even the most basic addition and subtraction. At this time, his class teacher brought his parents to the school and suggested that his parents go to him to apply for a reading permit. With this accompanying certificate, he does not need test scores in school, and he can also go to junior high school and get a junior high school completion certificate in the future.
Originally, this was for the good of the child, but it deeply stung the heart of Li Shicheng's parents. At that time, if there was a child who applied for a reading permit, in fact, in the eyes of others, the child was no different from a fool. That kid will endure the prejudices and ridicule of others.
They took him to an intelligence test, and Li Shicheng tested that the IQ was 80. He is only 5 values lower than normal people, not even mild intellectual disability, but belongs to the marginal intelligence group. He just learns slower than others, not mentally retarded at all.
However, in the eyes of the public, their marginal intellectual groups are similar to those with intellectual disabilities, they are intellectually retarded, and they are also stupid in doing things. As he said:
"I think the difference between us and other students with intellectual disabilities is like a 1-day rice ball and a 99-day rice ball in a convenience store."
Li Shicheng's parents are reluctant to let their children be ridiculed, but their children cannot afford not to receive education. If they don't apply for this accompanying certificate, Li Shicheng will have no way to attend ordinary primary schools, and can only transfer to special schools. His parents were caught in a dilemma.
Later, when Li Shicheng talked about his parents during that time, he still felt very guilty in his heart. At that time, his parents had been anxious about his study problems, and his mother had never smoked, but in order to relieve the inner pressure, his mother also began to smoke every day.
And his father was also busy with the problem of reading the certificate. He went everywhere to find other elementary schools to see if he could transfer to a school that didn't need a pass. However, in response to Li Shicheng's situation, at that time, primary schools in Shanghai all needed their families to apply for a reading permit before they were willing to accept it.
His father has been eating closed doors, feeling very sad and depressed in his heart, feeling very sorry for the child, and began to paralyze himself by alcohol. In the end, his parents made a difficult decision to give him a reading permit.
Not long after, the thing that Li Shicheng's parents were most worried about happened. Their children were bullied at school.
As his classmates grew older, they found that Li Shicheng was different from other classmates. In the eyes of his classmates, he was always dumbfounded, and he looked out of place with everyone. Some ignorant children began to take the lead in isolating and excluding him, and the whole class was unwilling to play with him after being instigated.
Some nasty children laughed at him in front of him, calling him a fool and an idiot, which made the young Li Shicheng very hurt, but at that time, he did not expect that he would suffer more terrible bullying.
When he stepped into the door of the junior high school, it was as if he had come to hell. Elementary school students only verbally insulted, while junior high school students began to torture him even more intensely.
Some junior high school students have not cultivated the three views, and they are very bold. They like to treat rebellion as a personality, maliciously insult and hurt others, and bully the weak in groups. Vulnerable people like Li Shicheng are the main targets of their bullying.
When he went to school, he was stopped by five bad boys. They laughed at his flaws wantonly and even beat him with their hands. Li Shicheng wanted to escape, but his school bag was caught by them, and he couldn't run away at all.
So Li Shicheng decided to resist this group of bullies, and he held out his fist and waved it at one of the. The group of did not expect him to dare to fight back, and planned to give him a little color to see. Several of them held his hands, grabbed him by the collar, and slammed his head against the big glass.
Li Shicheng's head was broken, and blood flowed down his forehead. And the group of saw that he was injured, feared being punished, and left him on the side of the road and ran. Li Shicheng himself went to the hospital to treat the wound, and the doctor stitched several stitches on his head.
Li Shicheng's junior high school life was spent in being bullied. He was often beaten by others, but he did not give up his hope for life, but maintained an optimistic and enterprising spirit to help his classmates who suffered as much as he did.
At school, Li Shicheng met a female classmate with cerebral palsy. The girl was also ostracized and hurt by others, and some children in their class liked to joke about her disability and maliciously imitate the girl's walking posture. The girl couldn't walk normally because she was sick, so she had to walk with a limp.
However, some of the children in their class did not understand things at all, and they did not know that she had put in great effort just by standing up and walking. Adolescent girls face the prejudices and ridicule of their classmates and have suicidal thoughts. She no longer wanted to put up with the strange eyes of others.
The girl was going to end her life. Li Shicheng just happened to pass by, and he immediately rushed forward to stop the girl, and he said to the girl, "Never give up hope." This sentence has also inspired him ever since, allowing him to overcome the ups and downs on the road of life.
The girl also knew Li Shicheng, and the two of them were one of the few people with disabilities in the school. She knew that Lee Se-seung had also been ostracized at school. The two of them had a common encounter, which made the girl let down her inner guard and follow his advice. Li Shicheng saved the girl's life.
Soon his hellish junior high school life was over, and he went to a school that specialized in accepting disabled children.
Taste the pain of social survival
After graduating from junior high school, because he lagged far behind the grades of other students, he did not go to the middle school entrance examination. His parents sent him to the Shanghai Special Vocational Technical School.
The main purpose of the school, which is funded by the State, is to teach this group of children with special disabilities a skill so that they can later support themselves in society and not live on the streets.
Li Shicheng studied very hard in school and successfully obtained several vocational qualifications. These include four professional certificates: Western Pastry Chef Junior, Western Pastry Chef Intermediate, Chinese Chef Junior, and Chinese Pastry Chef Junior.
For ordinary people, it is not difficult to obtain these qualifications. It doesn't take much time for everyone, it only takes a few months to get it done quickly.
Shanghai Special Education School (t-source network)
But for Li Shicheng, because they learn new things very slowly, they have to pay several times more time and sweat than ordinary people to do it. Li Shicheng also spent several years to obtain these certificates.
At Shanghai Special Vocational and Technical School, Li Shicheng had the happiest campus life. Here everyone is the same kind of person, there is no ridicule and insult from other students, you can also learn the skill.
The school song of their school also deeply inspired Li Shicheng, allowing him to actively integrate into society and face life optimistically. The lyrics read: "I am a junior high school student, and I also want to participate in society... Although I am weak and small, I will work hard, fate is in my hands, and take the initiative to develop myself.
The school teachers hope that this group of children will not give up on themselves because of their physical disabilities, but will be kind people who are useful to society. Li Shicheng graduated from school with the instructions of his teachers and stepped into the society to participate in work.
For recent graduates, social competition is cruel after all, not to mention people like Li Shicheng.
When Li Shicheng went out to look for a job, although he had many qualifications, no boss was willing to give him a chance, and many people in society were prejudiced against the disabled.
He once went to an interview with a Chinese restaurant to see that he had a Certificate in Chinese Cooking, and the head chef had planned to keep him, but when he learned that he had a problem with his IQ, he gently told him that he would have to think again.
But Li Shicheng had already understood the voice of the head chef, and others had actually rejected him. He had encountered this situation many times, and he could understand the concerns of others, after all, they were still worried that people with disabilities would not be able to do their jobs. He had to quietly leave the restaurant on his own.
He also applied for a job as a waiter at a company, and his main job every day was to clean up the garbage. Although he did a very good job, his boss fired him a few days later and recruited two able-bodied normal people to come in.
He had to go back to work, and the Taiwanese owner of a bakery left him behind. But the job requires 12 hours of work, and he stands every day from morning to night, and there is no overtime pay, and as he himself puts it, the company is a "sweatshop."
After leaving that bakery, he went back to looking for work. During those years, he also worked as a phone customer service for a while, and also worked as a waiter at a milk tea shop, helping guests make milk tea and snacks.
When he worked in the milk tea shop, he was very down-to-earth and promoted to deputy store manager, when he could get about 4,000 yuan per month.
Although he has been graduating from school for several years, he still wants to continue to learn and improve himself. He learned that the state now has a policy to help people with disabilities go to college, and immediately signed up for the project, and every week he took advantage of his break to go to the Amateur University in Changning District, Shanghai to learn about hotel management.
This major is specially designed for people like them with intellectual disabilities, who also studied a lot of disability-related content at this university, and obtained a certificate of disability certification from Harvard University, as well as a college diploma.
At that time, Li Shicheng had a hearing-impaired classmate who was working as a manager in a financial company, and after knowing that he had obtained a college certificate, he invited him to work with him. At this time, Li Shicheng was looking for a job, and out of trust in his old classmates, he went to the company.
At that time, he trusted the friend very much, and he felt that those who were able-bodied were always discriminating against and hurting themselves, and only the disabled people were his own kind, and he was completely defenseless against those people.
As a result, he arrived only to find that he had been deceived by a friend who was working as a loan shark, and the employees in the company were all disabled people who had been tricked. He tried to escape, but was locked up by these people. They forced him to go out and collect debts, and he was beaten up because he didn't want to do such a criminal thing.
He lived a life worse than death inside, and fortunately the scam company was soon caught by the police and he was rescued.
He later went to look for a job in an ice cream parlor, but within a week he was fired. He couldn't meet the store's requirements: he had to understand the English recipe for all the ice cream within a week. His learning speed is already slower than normal people, and for him, this task is too much and too difficult.
And other colleagues in the store always laughed at him and called him a mentally handicapped fool. This made him feel very humiliated, and he had to leave from here.
Li Shicheng's award certificate
Soon he finally found his favorite job, that is, delivery and courier, he worked for five years, in this job, he slowly reconciled with himself, no longer afraid to face the ridicule of others.
Reconcile with an unjust fate
When he first started delivering takeaways, he was also very hard. The summer temperature in Shanghai is very high, and every day at noon, when the sun is at its peak, he will be tired and sweaty every day. At its hottest, he used to suffer from heat stroke three times a day.
However, he persevered, and he smiled and said: "This job is no longer insulted by others, and the most that customers can do is complain about the untimely delivery of food." And the monthly income is OK, no matter how tired you can work. ”
When he did his best, he could earn more than ten thousand yuan a month. At that time, he worked part-time at a courier company during the day to deliver express delivery in the city, and at night he went to deliver takeaway for fast food restaurants. Basically, he can earn more than 500 yuan per day. In the process of delivering takeaways, he also made a lot of rider friends. Everyone affectionately called him Max Lee or Brother Lee.
Some of his friends are disabled like him, but many more are able-bodied, normal people. After being seduced by friends, he also understood a truth, that is, there are good people and bad people in any group, and he just needs to get along with everyone as an equal!
Li Shicheng's life is getting better and better, and he has really walked out of the shadow brought by the word "mental retardation" to him. He believes that he is the same as normal people and can create a happy life positively and optimistically.
He was very grateful to the doctor who saved him and said sincerely: "If there is no doctor to treat me, I will die from birth." "Although his intelligence is not as good as normal, he is already the greatest luck to survive.
Moreover, he also has the selfless love of his parents, and his parents can obviously have a second child, but they gave up in order to love him wholeheartedly. Because he was a little dumber than ordinary people, they were afraid that the children they would give birth to would bully him, and after his parents left, they would fight with him for family property.
Now his parents have rented out the three houses that were divided from the demolition. They wanted to share the rent with Li Shicheng so that he would stop working so hard, but he refused his parents' kindness. He still wants to work with his own hands, and he doesn't want to eat old age at home.
He loves his current job and wants to share his life with more vulnerable people, encouraging them not to give up trying to live, disabled people and normal people are equal, do not have to take the ridicule of others to heart.
So he took the initiative to explore the network, registered the "Indomitable Max Lee" account on the social platform, shared his life of delivering takeaways, let everyone understand the real life of "mental retardation", and used his own story to remove everyone's prejudice against people with intellectual disabilities.
Many people watched his video and felt very moved. The elementary school classmates who had bullied him also specifically found him, invited him to dinner, and apologized for bullying him before.
Li Shicheng set an example for the disabled people, telling them not to be afraid of the different eyes of others, as long as we insist on being diligent and kind people, we can definitely create our own happy life. Even if the process is very difficult, it can be achieved as long as you persist.
At the same time, he also hopes that the society can understand the mentally disabled people a little more, the life of the "mentally disabled" is not what everyone imagines, and they are also like ordinary people, hoping to be respected by everyone, rather than ridicule and contempt. Li Shicheng shares his life on the Internet in order to break everyone's prejudice against people with disabilities, and they can also work hard and live hard like normal people.
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