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Pete Denman Highlight
After my accident, all that anyone expected from me was to breathe...so all I could do from there was go higher.
About Pete
- He failed the third grade, and after years of struggling with reading, he was diagnosed with dyslexia when he was in the seventh grade.
- He gave up on school, and to avoid figuring out what to do with his life, he started partying.
- In 1988, when he was twenty years old, he broke his neck in a diving accident and was left without the use of any of his limbs.
- Says no one expected anything from him after that; they barely expected him to breathe.
- It took him 2-3 years to recover, but he saw it as an opportunity to reset and start his life over.
- After his recovery, he went back to high school, got his diploma, then went on to college; he graduated when he was thirty years old.
- He got his degree in graphic design and now works as a UX designer at Intel.
- One of his most notable projects was redesigning the user interface of Stephen Hawking’s revolutionary computer system.
