Timothé Griseri, alias Handitim on social networks. – Handitim – Instagram
- Timothé Griseri, 20, is disabled from birth and prefers humor to self-pity.
- On social networks, the Toulousain has become Handitim, which responds directly to questions, practical or personal, about his disability.
- He has just created his association to become embedded with his chair and his good humor in front of other, less virtual assemblies.
When he arrives with his chair in a college class, it is he who sits everyone down. When he says, for example, that he would not want the possible “magic wand” that would make him valid. “Because my handicap is what makes my strength”, assures
Handitim, that of TikTok or Instagram, who overcomes with humor his speech difficulties by launching into a rap occasionally.
The Tim of social networks compels himself to a rhythm of several daily videos and answers without taboos, in front of the camera, to all the questions. Even on sexuality. “I’m not shying away,” said the one who made his sincerity a style. “I don’t like to lament my fate,” he says.
Practical or intimate matters
Timothé Griseri, 20, disabled because of a premature birth, has nevertheless spent nineteen years of his life in an institution. And, he admits, he was not always so philosophical. “As a child, I had a lot of trouble accepting my disability,” he says. Then at around 15, 16, I said to myself that we had to overcome that and the great adventure of social networks began ”. Like “a window” that opened. In both ways. Followers are often passionate about the practical aspects of his life – for the access ramp to his car, the arrangement of his room with his parents, his adapted boxing lessons – but they also sometimes titillate him on his feelings, his reactions to difficult situations, his kind rebellious side. Who forgives when we laugh but who also knows how to put people in their place with a smile.
Tim is like everyone else his age. He lives with his eyes riveted on the counter of his followers but also knows what this popularity can have volatile. As long as it lasts, he wants to be “a carrier of positivity and a message of hope” on disability. But he has already planned to ride on other paths thanks to the creation of his brand new Handitim association. In schools, in business, he wants to demonstrate “that one can be handicapped and have sports and cultural activities”. Also prove to “people who said” that he would never do anything in life “that they were wrong”. In beauty.