What prevented Hawking from becoming despondent
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When Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 1963, few thought he would live more than a couple of years.
At the time he was diagnosed, Professor Hawking asked a question often posed when people are diagnosed with a terminal illness — why me?
He wrote about this in his memoir, My Brief History.
"I felt it was very unfair — why should this happen to me?
"At the time, I thought my life was over and that I would never realise the potential I felt I had."
But Professor Hawking lived decades longer than he, or many medical experts, expected that he would.
How Hawking's disease progressed
Professor Hawking had just turned 21 when he was diagnosed with a very rare slow-progressing form of ALS, a form of motor neurone disease (MND).
He was at the end of his time at Oxford when he started to notice early signs of his disease. He was getting more clumsy and fell over several times without knowing why.
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Answer: In 1985 he became ill with pneumonia on a trip to CERN in Geneva. To help him breathe again, doctors did a tracheotomy, which meant they had to cut a hole in his neck and place a tube into his windpipe. Professor Hawking irreversibly lost the ability to speak.