BIOGRAPHY
Maya is a 30 year old neurodivergent (ADHD & Autistic), ambulatory wheelchair user, with chronic pain being part of her daily life. She has been a qualified personal trainer for over a decade, coached herself for a bodybuilding competition as a teenager, and has experience with para sports such as sledge hockey and wheelchair basketball.
Maya has been featured on BBC Panorama and BBC World to help raise awareness for endometriosis, and is currently supported by the GLL Sport Foundation’s Athlete Support Program (her interview for the ‘Better’ Community Stories is on their website under her former name of ‘Kirsty’).
She is grade 7 on clarinet, and self-taught alto saxophone & acoustic guitar. Aside from music, she also loves getting out into nature, weight training in the gym to maintain a strong physique, and has a special interest in rollercoasters/theme parks (recently travelling into Europe to tick some more off her list!)
Maya enjoys trying to shake up people’s perceptions of disability; she has lots of visible tattoos, and just short of 20 piercings. Maya’s middle name is ‘Mynx’, which she feels represents her well!
You will rarely catch Maya without a big smile on her face and often has a very distinct laugh!
Maya M
- HEIGHT: 162 cm/5' 4''
- SHOE SIZE: 40EU/9US/7UK
- HAIR: Black
- EYES: Green
- DIS/DIFF: Wheelchair User
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- HEIGHT: 162 cm/5' 4''
- SHOE SIZE: 40EU/9US/7UK
- HAIR: Black
- EYES: Green
- DIS/DIFF: Wheelchair User
BIOGRAPHY
Maya is a 30 year old neurodivergent (ADHD & Autistic), ambulatory wheelchair user, with chronic pain being part of her daily life. She has been a qualified personal trainer for over a decade, coached herself for a bodybuilding competition as a teenager, and has experience with para sports such as sledge hockey and wheelchair basketball.Maya has been featured on BBC Panorama and BBC World to help raise awareness for endometriosis, and is currently supported by the GLL Sport Foundation’s Athlete Support Program (her interview for the ‘Better’ Community Stories is on their website under her former name of ‘Kirsty’).
She is grade 7 on clarinet, and self-taught alto saxophone & acoustic guitar. Aside from music, she also loves getting out into nature, weight training in the gym to maintain a strong physique, and has a special interest in rollercoasters/theme parks (recently travelling into Europe to tick some more off her list!)
Maya enjoys trying to shake up people’s perceptions of disability; she has lots of visible tattoos, and just short of 20 piercings. Maya’s middle name is ‘Mynx’, which she feels represents her well!
You will rarely catch Maya without a big smile on her face and often has a very distinct laugh!