An unlikely Cambridge dream

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wouldn't it be the most ridiculous story

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ever told if the boy who couldn't read

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and write at 18 gets a PhD before he's

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30 that's Cambridge Professor Jason AR

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day and his story is the most ridiculous

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ever told but he didn't do it alone and

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sometimes you don't need a thousand

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people to want you to win you just need

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one or

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two Jason's Story got off to a tough

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start he was diagnosed with autism and

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Global development delay and was

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non-verbal my processing is very very

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slow so cognitively that has always been

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a problem that's the reason why things

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happen later for me than they should

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have done four or five hours of speech

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therapy a day from the age of three

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there is nothing to suggest that any of

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this is working at 11 go into this room

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we go through the same kind of warm-up

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exercises as we normally did the speech

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therapist and said to me hello Jason as

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she always did and I just responded

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hello it's quite a strange thing to hear

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your own voice for the first time when

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you're 11 I didn't expect my voice to

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sound like this I think the first time I

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saw I was