Two women in China are not letting their disorders get in the way of their love for the written word. Yu Bin and Sun Lukang, who both have cerebral palsy, have patiently practiced and typed for years, and are now being recognized by local and international media. 

Yu Bin

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Yu Bin, a 33-year-old woman from China's southwest province of Sichuan, recently finished her full-length novel titled Gray Star after three years of strong dedication to the art. People's Daily reported that she only used her right hand's index finger to type. 

Having cerebral palsy, Yu didn't have a normal life. She suffered from pneumonia when she was only three months old. Doctors managed to cure her, but they said that she was unlikely to live for more than 13 years. 

Yu disproved the doctor's claims when she learned to read and write at the age of 14 with the help of her parent, and started writing stories when she was 18. In 2013, she became a member of the Writers Association of Sichuan Province. 

Sun Lukang

Sun, born prematurely with cerebral palsy, used only her toes to live as she cannot use her arms. Over the past 10 years, she has written and published four books that can be bought in local bookstore in Qingdao City in Eastern China's Shandong province. 

At the age of seven, she started writing Chinese characters, universally known to be one of the most difficult alphabets to write, with her toes. She then used them to type when her parents bought her a computer 14 years ago. 

"It was really difficult to write with my feet at the beginning; the pen would always slip through my toes. But I was eager to do it well. I kept practicing until I got blisters. I finally got the hang of it after three months of practice," she told CNN.

Apart from her books, she has also wrote more than two million words for poems and essays. 

"My parents has long ago implanted the idea that I could do anything as others do, and even better. I've never thought myself any different than other people-I'm even more normal than normal people," Sun said. 

Sun, now 25 years old, works as a freelance writer now and hopes to found her own media company to help ordinary people reach their dreams of being a published author. She is also thankful for her husband's support, whom she married in February this year.

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