Famous disable people who overcame their condition

Famous disable people who overcame their condition

"Even though I can't move and have to talk through a computer, in my mind, I am free."

Stephen Hawking

Frida Kahlo

"I paint myself because I am alone and because I am the subject I know best."

"Curiously, nature, while taking away something very valuable from me, the sight gave me another gift, music."

Andrea Bocelli

Andrea Bocelli

Luciano Pavarotti

In my final year at Oxford, I realized that I was becoming more and more clumsy. After falling down some stairs, I went to the doctor, but all he said was: “Stop drinking beer.” I became even more clumsy after moving to Cambridge. At Christmas, when I went skating on the lake, I fell and couldn't get up. My mother noticed these problems and took me to the doctor. The doctor sent me to a specialist and shortly after my 21st birthday I went to the hospital for tests. In the end The discovery that I had an incurable disease that would probably kill me in a few years was a bit of a shock. However, while I was in the hospital, I saw a young man I vaguely knew die of leukemia in the bed opposite mine, and it wasn't a pretty thing to see. There were clearly people who were worse off than me — at least my condition didn't make me feel unwell.

Kahlo was a promising student, heading to medical school (the institution had recently begun admitting women, with only 35 students out of a total of 2,000 students enrolled)

In 1954, Frida Kahlo, who had contracted severe pneumonia, was found dead. Despite being registered as a death from pneumonia, many believe it was suicide due to high substance consumption.

Self-portrait with strain of thorns and beija-flor, 1940

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Hawking was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) As ALS progresses, the degeneration of motor neurons in the brain interfere with messages to muscles in the body. Eventually, muscles atrophy and voluntary control of muscles is lost.