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Beyond Their Disability
Stories By Changemaker
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"I'm ready to take the world by storm and have people look at me and say, Deaf people, can dance?"
- Nyle Dimarco

Story by Aliyah Burgos

Nyle Dimarco
Model, Actor, Activist

The day that Nyle and his brother Nico were born their parents took them to the hospital to see if they could hear or not. They did a test and the doctors said they couldn't hear. Instead of being sad, they were happy. The doctors were confused as to why they were happy but the truth is they were happy because they could give them a better childhood growing up not hearing than if they were hearing. For about 25 generations in their family hearing had been lost so they all communicated through sign language.
Nyle was born May 8th, 1989 in Queens, New York. He and his twin Nico were born deaf just like most of his family. They grew up in an all deaf house so they learned a lot more ways to communicate using signs and other ways better than if they were half deaf and half hearing. Nyle talked about how you would think that an all deaf house would be quiet, but when all of your family is deaf you don't realize how much noise you can make.
Nyle started inspiring people showing that even though you have a disability you can accomplish major things in life if you want it hard enough. ‘’Find your ability in your disability,” Nyle said. Nyle wants kids to not feel limited by their disability but to feel like they can go further with it.
Nyle's friend said that he should try modeling when he got a little older. He tried it and he liked it so he continued his career in modeling. That lead him to win Top Model, later he went on to Dancing with the Stars. His books, talk shows, and interviews with different people and he talks about how life has been hard and all the challenges he has been through. All the time that things were hard and he wanted to give up but he went on and did great things with his life instead of being limited with his disability.
Nyle Dimarco has broken so many disability barriers proving that if you want to do something bad enough you can do it with just much equality as a person who doesn't have a disability. People without disabilities tend to take it for granted because they don't know what people with disabilities go through on a daily basis. But at the same time, people underestimate people with disabilities just because they aren't like them. But the truth is people with disabilities can probably do this even better than people who don't have any just for the fact that they are so determined in life.

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Story by Allison Rosales Ramirez

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Despite Alexander’s struggles with a learning disability, he overcame this and made huge contributions to society, inventing something that changed the lives of everyone around the world. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
Before the telephone, people could only communicate through letters that would take days or weeks to get to the other. Because of the telephone, people were more able to communicate with each other even if they were miles and miles apart. The telephone was then evolving into something modern and easier to use and has made it easier for us to get by the world. Of course, it has made an impact but unfortunately, it has affected the world in a few bad ways. Like the way we view ourselves and others.
Alexander was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. As a child, Alexander liked to make mini machines. At the age of 12, he invented a device with rotating paddles and nail brushes that could remove husks from the wheat grain to help improve farming. Life was not always easy for Alexander though. His brothers sadly died because of tuberculosis. His mom was also deaf and this motivated him to help those who were deaf.
Alexander was loved by those who were deaf. He opened a school for the deaf and helped them too. He also encouraged sign language a lot. Alexander faced many struggles, like people claiming his invention. He also had to face hundreds of court cases but won every single one of them. Thanks to his determination over many years, he succeeded.
People may have thought he wouldn’t succeed but his hard work and determination allowed him to. He was an amazing person who loved to help others. Despite having a disability, he still loved creating new things and although not all succeeded, he kept trying and ended up changing the lives of many.

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Alexander Graham Bell
Creator of Telephone

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Despite Alexander’s struggles with a learning disability, he overcame this and made huge contributions to society, inventing something that changed the lives of everyone around the world. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
Before the telephone, people could only communicate through letters that would take days or weeks to get to the other. Because of the telephone, people were more able to communicate with each other even if they were miles and miles apart. The telephone was then evolving into something modern and easier to use and has made it easier for us to get by the world. Of course, it has made an impact but unfortunately, it has affected the world in a few bad ways. Like the way we view ourselves and others.
Alexander was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. As a child, Alexander liked to make mini machines. At the age of 12, he invented a device with rotating paddles and nail brushes that could remove husks from the wheat grain to help improve farming. Life was not always easy for Alexander though. His brothers sadly died because of tuberculosis. His mom was also deaf and this motivated him to help those who were deaf.
Alexander was loved by those who were deaf. He opened a school for the deaf and helped them too. He also encouraged sign language a lot. Alexander faced many struggles, like people claiming his invention. He also had to face hundreds of court cases but won every single one of them. Thanks to his determination over many years, he succeeded.
People may have thought he wouldn’t succeed but his hard work and determination allowed him to. He was an amazing person who loved to help others. Despite having a disability, he still loved creating new things and although not all succeeded, he kept trying and ended up changing the lives of many.

Story by: Angela Simmons

Billie Eilish

American Singer
Songwriter

Young, Entertaining, with a tint of neon streaks, Billie Eilish has had her peak despite her disability holding her back.Even the unexpected became a true turn of point, and this one singer has experienced something that she’d never expect to have fame for.

Billie grew up surrounded by a family who has idolized music for a long time, For most of her life, she's been surrounded by music for the longest period of time. Her parents had inspiration for 90s pop and considered on making their kids become musical stars one day hoping they will shine. Billie’s childhood was just like any other, she's taken on multiple hobbies such as singing,dancing, and even tried horseback riding. But billie had a disability that nobody of the average could guess she had. And that is her Tourettes. Her tourette syndrome was different, instead she didn’t have ticks but more like she meantally had the mind where she could switch it on and off. With a mind like hers, is where her creativity shines.

Around 2015 Billie’s older brother,Finneas Baird O’Connell is a music producer in a band with him and his colleagues. He wrote a song that he produced called “ocean eyes” and needed a singer for the job. He has none other asked the 14 year old Billie Eilish to be the singer to his song, She of course accepted this role and little did they know that this has persuaded both of their careers as music artists.

It shows that even you expect even one person to listen, you can bring the whole world together to hear the achievements you've accomplished.

Brandon

Story by Brandon Lara

Louis Armstrong
Trumpet Player

Louis Armstrong always loved to play the trumpet and got famous by not only playing the trumpet but because he was really good at singing too.

He had a disability called Satchmo syndrome, so it made his throat hurt, it happens to a lot of trumpet players. He was born in New Orleans. His childhood was bad because he lived in a bad neighborhood it was bad for him as a kid. But that never stopped him from becoming a successful trumpeter.

He worked and worked, but one day a Jewish family helped him buy his first trumpet and that inspired him to play the trumpet. At first, people thought he was going to be bad but he kept playing and playing people saw and heard that he was really good, and sometime after people knew who he was all over the place.

After that people change their way of seeing him, to some people he was a god to Louis it was him playing the trumpet for people and that was his dream to be heard. He started gaining money which he helped because he didn't have a lot of money and helped his family as well.
By the end, people understood that Louis Armstrong was a great man and more than just a worker.

“If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them" - Johnny Depp

Story by Devlin Updyke