Juan Magdaraog On Overcoming Disability
Juan Magdaraog is your normal everyday guy. He’s into tech, sports, movie, TV shows, games while his two big loves are Macs and Ferraris. He wakes up around 9 or 10am, eat breakfast, do his morning routine and then stay glued to the computer until 2 or 3 am blogging and communicating with his clients. There’s not much difference between Dickoy (as he is fondly called) and you but for one small thing: he has one of the world’s rarest diseases called Pompe. He has been confined in a wheelchair for the past 17 years and can no longer breathe on his own so he’s connected to a bi-pap machine 24/7.
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This interview, however, is not about his disease. It is about him. It’s about how he managed to view his disability as a powerful motivation to make something out of himself. He cultivated his “this” abilities and managed to become an inspiring personality in his country. Instead of dwelling on the things he can never do because of Pompe, he focused on the Internet and became a blogger, freelance writer, and owner of Sparkplug Studios. Find out more after the jump!
