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I went to several different grade schools all over the West Coast. I got polio when I was 8 and spent eight months in the hospital and a rehab clinic in Seattle.

— Dennis Washington

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.

— Karolyn Grimes

When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.

— Francis Ford Coppola

I went to eight different schools my first nine years of school.

— Vanessa Lachey

I had a mild case of polio - not enough to put me in an iron lung, but enough to keep me bedridden for weeks. As I came out of it, my mom wanted to do something for me. She realized that, growing up in the city, I'd missed out on a lot of nature.

— Robert Redford

I moved to Seattle when I was two or three years old. Had my early education there, and would spend summers on the farm in Maryland. Then I went to boarding school in New Hampshire, to St. Paul's School. From there, I moved to London.

— Alexis Denisof

I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school.

— Ami Bera

In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.

— Mark Waters

I went to public school up until junior high.

— Kristen Stewart

✗Opposing Perspectives

I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.

— Jack Nicklaus

I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.

— Sami Gayle