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Jason Arday has achieved his once seemingly impossible dream of becoming a professor at the prestigious Cambridge University in England.
The 37-year-old sociology of education professor, who couldn’t read or write until he was 18, was diagnosed with global development delay and autism spectrum disorder as a child, and couldn’t speak until age 11.
Less than eight years ago, Arday was also told he’d need to be housed in assisted living and have lifelong support as an adult, but the Clapham, south London native wasn’t letting up. On his mother’s bedroom wall one day, he wrote a list of goals, one being: “One day I will work at Oxford or Cambridge.”
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