Stephen Hawking was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. In 1963, Hawking was diagnosed with an early-onset slow-progressing form of motor neurone disease (“MND” also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis “ALS” or Lou Gehrig’s disease) that gradually paralysed him over the decades.

Both Melody and Stephen can’t talk, walk, can’t get themselves out of bed or even feed themselves. They are both very intelligent people. I guess people always thought they had no smarts in them. But once they both got a talking device, their whole worlds changed. Like COMPLETELY.