Successful People with Disabilities

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Nick Vujicic is an Australian Christian evangelist and motivational speaker born with tetra-amelia syndrome, a rare disorder characterised by the absence of all four limbs. Vujicic presents motivational speeches worldwide which focus on life with a disability, hope and finding meaning in life. He also speaks about his belief that God can use any willing heart to do his work and that God is big enough to overcome any disability.

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Famous Indian Classical dancer and TV actress, Sudha Chandran met a car accident and lost one leg. She couldn’t take the fact that she won’t be able to dance. Her doctor gave her a prosthetics that was meant to help her walk. But her passion and love for dance took her much ahead.

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Although this mega movie star often sets the screen on fire, he struggled as a student. Hrithik Roshan suffered from a severe stutter for over a decade in his life.

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Hollywood star Keira Knightly wanted to be an actress since she was a toddler, but it wasn’t an easy task. Knightely was diagnosed with dyslexia at the age of 6.

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Abhishek Bachchan was suffering from dyslexia, a learning disability, when he was a child. Everyone came to know about it through the film Taare Zameen Par.

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Marlee Matlin was just 18 months old when because of genetically malformed cochlea she became deaf. Beating all odds, Marlee established herself as an actress. She also won Golden Globe Award for her role in Children of a Lesser.

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Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). Today he is a world famous scientist who has contributed major scientific discoveries.

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This record-breaking swimmer was diagnosed with ADHD at a young age. As a student, teachers told Michael Phelp’s mom that he would never be able to focus on anything.

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Bethany Hamilton was 13, when she was attacked by a vicious shark and lost her left arm. No one imagined that Bethany can surf anymore, but just a month later she has been back on the water with her surfboard!

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John Forbes Nash is an Noble laureate American mathematician whose work in game theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations are considered ground breaking. In 1959 John Nash started showing severe signs of paranoia and started behaving erratically. He believed that there was an organization chasing him. In the same year he was admitted involuntarily to the hospital where he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.

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