Every Saturday, children with a physical or mental disability gather at a rehabilitation center in Utrecht to play sports together. While peers stand on hockey fields, wheelchairs maneuver between cones.
A boy drives his wheelchair towards a cone. He steers slightly askew, veers to the right and misses the pawn. The sports supervisor shouts: “Whoa, oops, he has a deformity.” Immediately another child responds wittily: “Everyone here has that.”
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