SPEAKing Up: 5 Disabled People Who Changed the World

Something fun on a crappy winter day!

People have a tendency to not expect much from disabled people…try telling that to these guys.

 

 

 

1. Albert Einstein(Autism Spectrum)

 

 

You know your awesome when your name is a synonym for genius.

 

 

 

2. Thomas Edison(Deafness/Hearing Loss)

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Face it we’d be living like apes without this guy.

 

 

 

3. FDR(Polio)

 

 

Best President ever PERIOD.

 

 

 

4. Charles Dickens(Epilepsy)

 

 

 

Christmas without Dickens…not OK!

 

 

 

 

5. Julius Caesar(Epilepsy)

 

Do I really have to spell it out?

So next time someone underestimates you channel these guys, then go kill it.