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* It's of note that this and most other [[Disability Tropes]] are among the reason some of those with non-physical or mental disabilities don't tell other people that they're disabled.
* [[Ludwig Van Beethoven]], one of the most famous Classical composers ever, started losing his hearing in his 20's. By his mid-40's, he was totally deaf, but still wrote some of his greatest music late in life. At the premiere of his 9th Symphony, with the famous "Ode To Joy" chorus, his back was to the audience as he was conducting ... and he could not hear when he got a standing ovation.
* [[Stephen Hawking]]
** Stephen
* Subverted in the case of [[Lon Chaney]]: ''he'' had no disabilities, but his parents were deaf. This forced him to use pantomime to communicate. Then he got into movies—during the ''silent'' era, a time when all actors could use to communicate was pantomime...
* Jean Chretien, when running in the 1993 Federal election as leader of the Liberal Party, was hit with an inept Progressive Conservative Party [[Scare Campaign]] ad that apparently mocked him for his face's Bell's Palsy. Chretien in response instantly took advantage of the public revulsion to that ad to give the public speech he had been waiting to give about being a little guy who had struggled with a physical disability since childhood. The result: Chretien won the election and became Prime Minister and the PC's were smashed from holding 169 seats to 2.
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