Walking is painful due to genetic disorder, but scholarship winner's dream career is nursing

Four undergraduates were on Tuesday awarded the $12,000 Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Scholarship For Persons With Disabilities, which recognises outstanding students with special needs. They include two NTU students: Mr Bjorn Ng, 25, who has autism, and Mr Marcus Lim, 25, who has glaucoma. Mr Ng, a final-year history and public policy student, said others shunned him in primary and secondary school. He took up a psychology diploma in polytechnic to understand human behaviour. Mr Lim, a third-year accountancy student, was born blind in one eye. He has limited peripheral vision and depth of perception. But it has not stopped him from representing Singapore in dragon boat racing in the 2023 Asian Games. He hopes to become a manager in an accountancy firm, where he wants to implement policies to help people with disabilities.

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