Australian Paralympian Dylan Alcott reveals struggles with self-esteem and body image and says

tired of dealing with annoying flies fruit flies and gats in your home the Zeo flying insect trap is your ultimate solution don't wait check out the link in the video description now to get your Zeo flying insect trap on Amazon and enjoy a bug free home today paralympian Dylan Alcott has made the painful admission that he used to struggle with his body image and revealed that turning to sports saved his life the Australian Wheelchair Sports Champion 33 appears on the cover of the upcoming Men's Health Australia and told the publication he was bullied as a child for being disabled and found his Outlet in sport I've always loved sport but I couldn't really access it as a kid what really saved my life was Finding par Olympic sport Dylan began not just the physical and the mental health benefits I got but finding my community other people with disability who were thriving the Melbourne born athlete added he wished he had seen people with disabilities competing in sport when he was a child as it would have greatly improved his morale I never saw anybody like me doing anything like this that would have been life-changing for me when I was really struggling with my own selfworth and my body image it would have been incredible Dylan revealed by getting involved in Wheelchair Sports he found a new sense of purpose which gave him an improved life Outlook it made me feel free free of my own lack of self-worth free of getting bullied I was out there having a crack it was just amazing Alcott famously won a gold medal with the Australian wheelchair basketball team team the rollers at the Beijing 2008 par Olympic Games and took home a silver medal at the 2012 London Games he retied after the January 2022 Australian Open and has turned to commentating at the 2024 Paris Olympics elsewhere the esteemed paralympian recently struck a deal to create a fiction series for Middle school-aged kids to celebrate and normalize disability difference and inclusion Alcott was born with a tumor wrapped around his spinal cord which resulted in him becoming a paraplegic after surgery to remove it during his career as a wheelchair tennis and basketball player he won multiple Grand Slam titles and gold medals in the Paralympics alcott's remarkable career also includes achieving a golden Slam in 2021 winning all four major titles and the paralympic gold medal in the same year in 2022 Alcott was named Australian of the year and was made an officer of the order of Australia