Jason Arday suffered from many developmental delays because of his condition.
An autistic man who could not read or write until he was 18 is now Cambridge University's youngest-ever black professor. His name is Jason Arday and he is 37 years old. His autism was soHe said: "When I started writing academic papers, I had no idea what I was doing. I did not have a mentor and no one ever showed me how to write."Everything I submitted got violently rejected.
He finally learned to read and write in his teens and at age 27 he wrote on his bedroom wall: "One day I will work at Oxford or Cambridge."He recalls how he talked to his friend and college mentor Sandro Sandi: "Sandro told me, 'I think you can do this - I think we can take on the world and win.' Looking back, that was when I first really believed in myself.
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