overcoming handicaps

Wisdom from Ann Lander's Readers: Overcoming "handicaps" Sometimes we are told our kids will never do certain things. This list says different.

Strike him down with infantile, paralysis and he becomes a Franklin D. Roosevelt, the only president to be elected to four terms.
When he is a lad of 3, burn him in a schoolhouse fire that the doctors say he will never walk again, and you have Glenn Cunningham, who set the world's record in 1934 for running a mile in 4 minutes 6.8 seconds.
Call him a slow learner "retarded" and write him off as ineducable, and you have an Albert Einstein.
Tell a young boy who loved to sketch that he has no talent, and you have a Walt Disney.
Pit her against sexual discrimination, and you have a Madame Curie.
Make him a hopeless alcoholic, and you have Bill Wilson, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Punish her with poverty and prejudice and she may survive to become another Golda Meir.
Rate him as "mediocre" in chemistry, and you have a Louis Pasteur.
Tell her she's to old to paint at age 80 and you have Grandma Moses.
Label him "too stupid to learn" and you have Thomas Edison.
Afflict him with periods of depression so severe that he cut off his own ear, and you have a Vincent Van Gogh.
Blind him and you have a Ray Charles, Tom Sullivan, Stevie Wonder, and George Shearing or Alec Templeton.
Call him dull and hopeless and flunk him in the 6th grade, and you have Winston Churchill.