People who are limited to doing normal things are called people with disabilities. They could be mute, dyslexic, amputated or ADHD. However, this list of interesting people proves us wrong of the fact that people with disabilities like them can still do great things in life, that some of us normal people cannot do.
Helen Keller
Helen, with a full name of Helen Adams Keller was a blind and deaf American writer, political activist and teacher. Even with her condition, it didn’t stop her from being the first deaf and blind person to get a Bachelor of Arts degree. Her past teacher, Annie Sullivan, didn’t give up on her despite of her lack of language. Instead, she helped her communicate with other people and his been known to the world in relation to dramatic plays especially of the The Miracle Worker. Using her hand, she was able to form words. Her first word was doll. After she was able to master communication using hand signals, she helped women, workers and other good causes. Sullivan and Keller was able to roam around 39 countries and has made a lot of visits in Japan, earning their trust. She was even able to meet Alexander Graham Bell, the one who invented the first practical phone and Charlie Chaplin, a famous English comic actor.
Stephen Hawking
Stephen was diagnosed with ALS at an early age of 21. But despite of this, it wasn’t a problem for him to achieve to be one of the famous physicists internationally. Now, he can only communicate through a computer attached to his 24/7 working wheel chair ,less than 3 decades decades ago. However, he continued his passion to learn more and discover things about the universe which includes general relativity and quantum mechanics. You can still buy one of his best-selling compilation which is A Brief History of Time.
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