Name: Inspiring man born without arms or legs - Nick Vujicic | 60 Minutes Australia
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It's an overworked word, but there's no other way to describe Nick Vujicic.

Nick was born without arms or legs, and when he tells the story of his birth, the shock, the confusion suffered by his parents, he'll have you in tears.

Growing up wasn't all that much fun either.

So how did this poor little Aussie kid do so well?

Become a school captain, go to uni, get a double degree, and set himself up in a really great job?

A message of hope that's helped teenagers all over the world cope with their problems.

Nick Vujicic was born with no legs and no arms.

I'm going out on a limb, what do you want?

This 25-year-old Australian is climbing over every obstacle life puts in front of him, and he's doing it with style.

You know, we're all going through something, just my pain is a bit more visible than yours or somebody else.

When that clicked, it was like a light in my brain.

I'm like, hey, now life I see as an opportunity.

This circumstance, there's got to be something good.

So do you see yourself as a disabled person?

I know I have no arms, no legs, but the definition of disability is something stopping you from being able to do something.

In my life, there's hardly anything I've found that I can't do.  Even golf.

I think we're getting a bit out of control here.

Nick is an inspiration with a phenomenal passion for life that's intoxicating for everyone who meets him.

I feel like I'm enjoying life, in my life, more than the average person out there.

That I'm achieving more things than the average 25-year-old.

Those dreams brought Nick to America 18 months ago.

In a short time, he's become a smash hit as a preacher and motivational speaker.

The secret to his success here is his Aussie accent and the ability to laugh at his lot in life.

Yeah, when you see me from the outside of a vehicle, you have no idea that I have no limbs.

And we're at the traffic lights and this car comes up next to us and this girl is looking at me.

So I look at her, she looks at me and I'm like, cool, let's have some fun here.

I grab the seatbelt in my mouth and I loosen it like this.

And then in the car seat, I just did this.

If I start feeling sorry for myself, then I know that if I've got a sad face, I'm a poor guy.

But if they see a guy who's able to joke about himself, it's good to laugh once in a while, mate.

To be able to laugh at life, that's what I've found that I can now accomplish.

There were many times I couldn't do that.

Nick was born in Melbourne in 1982, the long-awaited first child of Baris and Duska Vujicic.

When I was born, the doctors held me low enough so she couldn't see me as soon as I was born and she heard me cry.

But obviously, she saw a worried look in the doctor's face.

My dad looked over and his face colour changed as well and he might have seen me and my mum's like, what?

It's a question that's never been answered.

Nick's birth confounded the doctors then and still does.

So this was never detected on ultrasounds?

Your mum, medication while she was pregnant with you?

That was a decade before I was born and so she knew all about that.

She didn't even take Panadol or any painkillers while she had a headache and not a touch of anything else that might harm her pregnancy.

It took a while for your parents to accept their baby boy like you are?

I mean, I couldn't imagine the shock, the grief, the natural feelings of guilt, anger, confusion.

That sounds like a period of mourning almost for them.

You know, when I was born, my mum didn't even get flowers from anybody.

You know, you get a first born son, no one sent any flowers.

But despite his lack of limbs, Nick was a perfectly healthy baby and with sheer will, he adapted to everyday life.

It's that same perseverance and imagination that drives him today.

I mean, without it, I'm so thankful for this little thing.

I didn't break it, but I was playing soccer one day.

I sprained my foot, I couldn't walk in it for three weeks.

And I suppose having that foot also at least gives you something I take for granted, is a sense of touch and feel.

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