{"id":17000,"date":"2019-10-04T14:55:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T18:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=17000"},"modified":"2021-05-23T17:26:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T21:26:54","slug":"machado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/machado\/","title":{"rendered":"Student With Cerebral Palsy Aspires To Be Next Albert Einstein"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Asnay Machado was eight months old, his parents noticed his legs were spasming and he couldn\u2019t sit without assistance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe had to go through a lot of medical tests to find out what was going on,\u201d said Machado\u2019s father, Asnay Machado Alvarez. \u201cOnce we had the results, we tried to live a life as normal as possible, trying to engage him with school and his community as just one more kid.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Machado, an 18-year-old studying physics at Wolfson and Hialeah Campus, was born with cerebral palsy<\/a><\/span>\u2014a disorder that affects his motor skills. He uses a wheelchair and has a hard time moving and maintaining his balance.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s my hero,\u201d Machado\u2019s father said. \u201cAfter seeing everything he goes through, you ask yourself: would I be able to live like this, like he\u2019s doing? You get an idea about the challenges he has to face and you realize that he has fought through so much. He for sure doesn\u2019t let it hold him back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Machado was born in 2000 in Camag\u00fcey<\/span>, Cuba<\/span>. He found it difficult to socialize and write when he started school at four.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n