Handicaps build strength and purpose – and achievement.
Dr Abe V Rotor
Living with Nature School on Blog
- Stephen Hawking (PHOTO) was diagnosed with a slow-progressing form of motor disease that gradually paralyzed him over the decades until his death in 2018, aged 76. Hawking's contribution to our understanding: the Big Bang, quantum mechanics, black holes and the theory of relativity earlier proposed by Einstein.
- Charles Steinmetz (German-born American mathematician who fostered the development of alternating current) and Alexander Pope (English poet) were hunchbacks.
- Robert Louis Stevenson and John Keats had tuberculosis. Edgar Allan Poe was a psychoneurotic; Vincent van Gogh, founder of Expressionism suffered mental illness.
- Stevie Wonder, singer and songwriter, is blind; so with singer-lawyer Andrea Bocelli. Charles Darwin was an invalid in later life. Admiral Nelson had only one eye he sustained in a fierce naval battle.
- Pop star Selena Gomez was diagnosed with lupus. Hollywood actor Tom Hanks his diabetic. Helen Keller was the first deaf and blind person to earn a college degree. She published 12 books, and campaigned for women’s rights and labor rights her entire life.
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