my new book blue visions of a swimmer is now a children's book based on the life of a paraplegic swimmer it is amazing you can get it on our trade publications or amazon dot com as we all know  i love my outfit to like coming up i'm having a very good karma in my career right now and i've been honored to be able to walk in a fashion show coming up in september for a runway of dreams which is the foundation by mindy and it is just like we're not seeing you about i feel like we're making progress i feel like that we will get there one day so i'm hoping that like models in october i might go to have the ability to you know keep working to make that differen and i was like i have to part of the thing because brandon because it was so different than what other brands were doing and so i wanted to be a part of it for really pretty much since the inception of the brand and so when i was  one that had a physical disability in the campaign so that was really wonderful that they were you know they had selected so many different women from all walks of life all different stories all different experiences i think hollywood needs to get out of th friends of work girl friends were you know boyfriends were young moms were you know we were doctors or everything so it's like you know cast people with disabilities and roles that you would cast anybody else and so i'm hoping that that this becomes the great so well that people wouldn't believe that you didn't have a disability then yes to get that part but i think that you know you have to also allow somebody with a disability to audition for that same r because that person has lived it has gone through it and you know has obviously more experienced being in that situation than somebody that's not that doesn't have this for me personally i that's so and i still am realizing that you know i can do this and i have a full capability of doing this and it's not for the faint of heart but most importantly you have to have the personality and you have to have a confidence or if you don't if you're shy when you're taking pictures i would not just this to be a career for my thing it's it's very important to really surreal moment and i think that fashion has a long ways to go but it's improving so hopefully it just continues to improve and more people with disabilities will be on billboards  there's a certain in the past ophelia there's always been this so there you have a whole model look right and i think that luckily society is pulling away from that and realizing oh there are other types of you're out there and they're bracing us because there's people from all walks of life and so being that i am south asian it's been really great to see you know really does come from an it within but it also the reflected on the outside as well because if you're if you feel beautiful inside it definitely shows on the outside long time that is kind of the way my life was and as i got into college i found that there are departments that allowed you to seek out accommodations for yourself it opened up this identity that i pose for myself about being disabled and  better other people's lives including my own and in a world that that doesn't really cater to us and i my hope is that my art is able to do to do just that even though i am a you know a young woman with a disability of being a disabled woman my my message when so much go out to other disabled people but more to the able bodied community and just simply to listen and say able people know what they want and then they i think a lot about the connection between social media and to save and the disabled community and on one hand social media is the gatekeeper for allowing people with you know mobility issues it's unfair to assume that they would not want to be part of the entertainment industry when they're not even given the basic schooling education or transportation or access to achieve those rules so if you do find some