Hello!
I am a person who has multiple disabilities that affect me in a variety of ways. I want to read more memoirs by people with disabilities. What are some of your favorites and which disabilities do they involve?
(Note – memoirs from people with psychiatric disabilities are absolutely welcome!)
by SnooHesitations9356
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**Under The Eye Of The Clock** by Christopher Nolan (The Irish poet, not the film director.)
Not memoirs but feminist queer Crip by Alison kafer and care work by Leah lakshmi piepzna-samarasinha were life changers for me in understanding my own disabilities
Both have multiple disabilities and discuss not only their own experiences but the experiences of ppl with a variety of mobility, sensory, mh, etc. disabilities
Nobody Nowhere by Donna Williams is an interesting perspective on autism.
The Body Silent by Robert Murphy.
Broken – Jenny Lawson – who is absolutely hilarious.
*Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century* by Alice Wong
*Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life* by Alice Wong
What The **** Is Normal?! by Francesca Martinez (British actress/comedian with Cerebral Palsy)
Disability Visibility is an anthology with lots of personal essays and stories.
The Collected Schizophrenias by Wong is a good series of autobiographical essays.
Eli Clare is a disabled author with lots of great books that all draw on autobiography.
Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin
Laughing at My Nightmare by Shane Burcaw
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig
William Soutar: *Diaries of a Dying Man* – he had ankylosing spondylitis.