29 years ago, Zou really wanted to be a mother and gave birth to a baby that doctors told him would never be a normal child.
Ding-Ding was born hard, there were many complications at birth, and these led to cerebral palsy. The doctors did not give the boy a chance to heal and encouraged Zou to give up the baby, a vision that her husband also shared, believing that the boy would lead “a miserable and worthless life.” He, the man of the house, the pillar of the family, left them both. She, with the only desire to be the mother of her baby, divorced and made Ding’s upbringing a mission.
Zou took three jobs to support expensive treatments, took him with her where her employer allowed, and began playing all kinds of games with him to stimulate her senses and build her foundations of intelligence. In other words, to wake up his brain notes boredpanda.com.
Time passed, and Ding Ding learned from his mother how to use chopsticks, even when his stiff hands could barely catch them.
“I didn’t want him to feel ashamed of these physical problems,” she told the South China Morning Post.
29 years later, the same boy, Ding Ding, is a graduate of Peking University with a degree in environmental sciences and engineering and recently also a law student at Harvard.
Zou is a real heroine.