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Alice Irving & David Kent

Belfast girl and disability activist goes viral after 17 million people watch Rock, Paper, Scissors clip

A Belfast girl has gone viral after a clip of her playing Rock, Paper, Scissors while on a night out claimed over 17.3 million views on TikTok.

India Sasha has a rare congenital hand defect called Symbrachydactyly.

It affects people from birth and will leave them with short, often webbed fingers. Some might be missing fingers, as is the case with India.

Rather than be downtrodden about her condition, India has used it to thrive.

And the self-proclaimed 'CEO of One Hand Humour' gave a perfect example of that to her 393,000 followers on TikTok last week.

Uploading a clip with the caption "if you can't live, laugh, love your disability, you should!"

In it, she tells a group of four lads sitting at their table that if they're able to beat her in a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors, they'll get a round of drinks form her.

Already, 17 million people have seen what happens.

She even managed to get a free Chinese meal from another unsuspecting chap in a follow-up clip!

Speaking to Belfast Live back in 2020, India explained how much confident she had gotten thanks to her social media following.

She said: "Up until the TikTok boom, I was still finding myself hiding my hand, just to avoid having to deal with ‘the look’ that everyone with a physical disability is all to familiar with.

"But now, I enjoy when people see my hand, as I feel a sense of achievement in being proud and not feeling anxious when I’m looked at!

"I’ve been brought up making my ‘one hand jokes’ as a form of desensitising myself for when I face bullies in the real world outside my home.

"I adapted this mechanism to make my content in a way that desensitises my audience, and normalises disability in society.

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