Hawking won the world’s respect – and gave disabled people like me hope | Frances Ryan
by Frances Ryan from on (#3J5MH)
Growing up disabled, I had few role models. But this brilliant, witty scientist helped shift the negative stereotypes many face
As with most of the famous figures whose passing now hits us via a news alert on our phones, I never met Stephen Hawking. In the vastness of the entire universe, you could say I was one speck and he was another. And yet I thought of him as a continual presence in my life, who - perhaps paradoxically, in the light of his illness, not to mention of his work on time - would always be there, somehow.
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