00:00I'm Brody's mum, I'm Naomi.
00:02I'm Brody and I'm seven years old.
00:06Where do we live, Brods?
00:07Selisac.
00:08What do you like to play with? What do you like to do?
00:10Football.
00:11Yeah, you love your football, don't you?
00:13What else do you love to do?
00:15Eat.
00:16Eat.
00:20Playing games.
00:21Playing games with all your friends?
00:23Yeah.
00:24At school?
00:25Yeah.
00:26And board games.
00:27You like your board games?
00:28Do you like to play on the Xbox?
00:29Yeah.
00:30Yeah.
00:31And the PlayStation.
00:32And on the PlayStation.
00:33He's a very happy, hilarious little boy.
00:36He's really, really kind.
00:38He would do anything for anyone.
00:40He's just such a little sweetheart.
00:42He's amazing.
00:43He's just, you can always put a smile on your face.
00:46I was 20 weeks pregnant when I found out about Brody's hand.
00:50They picked it up on a scan.
00:53To be fair, they first told me that he wouldn't actually be born with anything from the wrist down.
00:58So when he was born, and he had a wrist and a very small palm and a little thumb,
01:05and he sort of literally, he was born, he would put it on my chest,
01:08and he sort of picked this little lucky fin up and sort of waved it in front of me
01:12as if to say, hello, mum.
01:14Like, this is nothing scary.
01:16It's obviously, you know, no idea what it was going to bring.
01:20Finding that out when I was pregnant with my first child as well,
01:23it was quite traumatic.
01:25But actually, when he was born and waved that in front of me,
01:28you just sort of know then that he's going to be all right, you know?
01:32I mean, growing up, you wouldn't even know, really, to most people,
01:36that there's anything, you know, different about him.
01:38He gets on with absolutely everything.
01:41Every single thing in the world.
01:42Nothing seems to have been a struggle so far.
01:46I'd say sort of the last year or two at school,
01:49now he's getting to the age where he knows he's different and he has got differences.
01:54He has had a few bits and bobs that he's struggled with.
02:00But he doesn't like to ask for help, and he doesn't like to make a point of it.
02:05So we just try and get through things as normal as you can.
02:10But he does do amazing.
02:12But there are certain things that you can see when his friends are doing the monkey buzz,
02:15and you can see it in his eyes.
02:16He doesn't say a lot, but you can see it does.
02:19It's bothering him, those sort of little things.
02:21But yeah, I mean, confidence-wise, so far, he's been amazing.
02:24But we want to keep that up.
02:27And you can just sort of, yeah, you can see sometimes he's starting to struggle a bit.
02:32Right, so I want a hair arm because then I can use a knife and fork.
02:37Use a knife and fork. That's pretty good, wouldn't it?
02:41What else could you do with it?
02:42Monkey buzz.
02:43Yeah.
02:44Eat.
02:45You manage to eat pretty well anyway.
02:49I use bat and ball.
02:50Bat and ball.
02:51You want to use the bat and ball first?
02:53Bat.
02:54Play a bit around us.
02:55Yeah.
02:57Is it Black Panther now?
02:58Yeah.
02:59I thought you went for the Iron Man one.
03:01You've changed your mind again.
03:02I don't really know.
03:04They're so cool to choose from, aren't they?
03:06Yeah, I don't really know.
03:07Maybe Black Panther.
03:08Black Panther.
03:10It's either Black Panther or Spider-Man or Iron Man.
03:13I think that's your three choices, isn't it?
03:15Yeah.
03:20Yeah.
03:27Still got my jacket.
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