LIVING WITH DISEASE

Great peoples and their disease.

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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein did not speak until the age of three. Even as an adult Einstein found that searching for words was laborious. He found schoolwork, especially math, difficult and was unable to express himself in writing. He was thought to be simple minded (retarded), until it was realized that he was able to achieve by visualizing rather than by the use of language. He work on relativity, which revolutionized modern physics, was created in his spare time.

Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking is a physicist/mathematician who has Lou Gehrigs Disease. He uses a wheelchair for mobility and a computer to speak.

Helen Keller
Helen Keller was suddenly shut off from the world at the age of 19 months by the loss of sight and hearing. Against overwhelming odds, she waged a slow and difficult but successful battle to re-enter the world. A near-savage deaf and blind mute child grew into a woman who wrote, spoke, and labored incessantly for the betterment of others and almost single-handedly destroyed age-old myths about people with disabilities.

John Milton
English Author/poet (1608-1674): He became blind at the age of 43. He went on to create his most famous epic, Paradise Lost.

Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci, an Italian painter, sculptor, writer, scientists, engineer, musician and architect. Renaissance genius. Strephosymbolis (unable to process symbols accurately).

George Washington
George Washington was unable to spell throughout his life and his grammar usage was very poor. His brother suggested that perhaps surveying in the backwoods might be an appropriate career for young George.