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Sep 27, 2005 · Stephen Hawking. Anger, People, Always Complaining. "Return of the time lord". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2005. It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly.
Sep 25, 2015 · On Disability. “My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be...
- Hawking and Our Understanding of Disability
- “I Speak For The People You Can’T Hear”
- Conclusion
At the age of 21, Hawking was diagnosed with a rare neurological disease known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and given only a few years to live. Although he did gradually become paralyzed and lose his ability to speak, Hawking exceeded his life expectancy by decades and continued to make seminal contributions to the scientific world. He al...
Hawking himself frequently acknowledged that much of his success was thanks to a financially-privileged background. In particular, he emphasized how different his life would have been without access to the technology that stopped him from becoming locked in his body. “My communication system broke down for three days, and I was shocked by how power...
“We have a moral duty to remove the barriers to participation, and to invest sufficient funding and expertise to unlock the vast potential of people with disabilities,” wrote Hawking, in a foreword to the World Report on Disability. In the wake of his death, some have suggested that the best way to honor Hawking is by working to remove these barrie...
Mar 14, 2018 · Today, disabled people are more than twice as likely to be unemployed than people without disability. Prof Hawking's only advice on disability was to focus on what could be achieved.
Mar 15, 2018 · Stephen Hawking showed us what it means — and what you need — to thrive with a disability. By Rebecca Ruiz. Stephen Hawking used his fame to raise awareness of what people need to thrive...
Mar 14, 2018 · If anything, Stephen Hawking’s disability influenced his work in a positive way. “I relish the rare opportunity I’ve been given to live the life of the mind,” he once said. While those without disabilities often perceive people like Hawking — and myself — as being “trapped” in our bodies, they actually give us a kind of freedom ...
Mar 14, 2018 · Disability. “I accept that there are some things I can't do. But they are mostly things I don’t particularly want to do anyway. I seem to manage to do anything that I really want.” Imperfection....