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07-10-2016, 04:13 PM
This blind Apple engineer is transforming the tech world at only 22
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Apple engineer Jordyn Castor has never been one for limitations
She was born 15 weeks early, weighing just under two pounds. Her grandfather could hold her in the palm of his hand, and could even slide his wedding ring along her arm and over her shoulder.*Doctors said she had a slim chance of survival.
It was Castor's first brush with limited expectations — and also the first time she shattered them.
SEE ALSO: How the Apple Watch wants to be the first fitness tracker for people in wheelchairs (http://mashable.com/2016/07/05/apple-watch-wheelchair-accessible/)
Castor, **w 22, has been blind since birth, a result of her early delivery. But throughout childhood, her parents encouraged her to defy expectations of people with disabilities, motivating her to be adventurous, hands-on and insatiably curious. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/10/apple-in**vation-blind-engineer/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Apple engineer Jordyn Castor has never been one for limitations
She was born 15 weeks early, weighing just under two pounds. Her grandfather could hold her in the palm of his hand, and could even slide his wedding ring along her arm and over her shoulder.*Doctors said she had a slim chance of survival.
It was Castor's first brush with limited expectations — and also the first time she shattered them.
SEE ALSO: How the Apple Watch wants to be the first fitness tracker for people in wheelchairs (http://mashable.com/2016/07/05/apple-watch-wheelchair-accessible/)
Castor, **w 22, has been blind since birth, a result of her early delivery. But throughout childhood, her parents encouraged her to defy expectations of people with disabilities, motivating her to be adventurous, hands-on and insatiably curious. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/10/apple-in**vation-blind-engineer/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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