Alicia Arenas: Recognising Glass Children
Having lost one brother to the world of autism and another to a terminal illness, Alicia Arenas never knew a normal childhood. Expected to always put on a brave face, Arenas played the role of good girl on the outside. One the inside, however, she was dying. In this heart-wrenching talk, Arenas tells parents of children with special needs and their surrounding community — to stop looking through the siblings of children with special needs.
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ABOUT Alicia Arenas
“Alicia Arenas is the founder and CEO of Sanera, The People Development Company. She is a distinguished business consultant, coach, corporate facilitator and speaker.
Prior to launching Sanera in 2008, Alicia was an accomplished Human Resources leader in corporate America working in Fortune 100 and 500 companies where she led Human Resources teams, mentored leaders, developed strategic operational plans and oversaw training and development at an enterprise level.
Things you really don’t need to know about her but through sheer curiousity I’m sure you’ll continue to read on include the fact that Alicia refuses to eat the last bite of a hot dog. If you want to know why, just Tweet her. She promises to tell you the answer. Secondly, the only way Alicia can put on mascara is if she has her mouth open. She’s tried to do it with her mouth closed and it just doesn’t work!
She has a dent in her nose. In sixth grade, she was always the last to be chosen for either softball team, she was strategically placed in the outfield – waaaaay out in the outfield. She was actually pretty relieved because no one ever hit the ball that far, until that day.
The pitch was thrown and unfortunately, the ball was smacked hard. It flew in her direction and she had no choice but to try and catch it. So she put up her mitt. The ball ricocheted off the top of her glove and slammed into her nose. In one motion, her glasses flew apart, she was falling down and blood and the rest, as they say, is history.”
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