I am looking for an engaging and insightful and hopefully also bit optimistic book on characters living with physical disability (being blind, deaf, unable to walk) but I'm also open to mental disability (severe bipolar, schizophrenia). I like to learn more about how the daily life of a character is, something that's realistic and makes you understand little things about what it's like to live with a disability on a day to day basis. Thanks.
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*Disability Visability* edited by Alice Wong
*Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life* by Alice Wong
*Miracle Boy Grows Up* by Ben Mattlin
*Dispatches From Disabled Country* by Catherine Frazee
*The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness* by Elyn Saks
A little life
The art of feeling
Out of My Mind. It’s a middle reader book, so it’s a quick read.
If at Birth You Don’t Succeed by Zach Anner
I’m a person with congenital physical disabilities; the fiction I’ve found most realistic is:
*Blindsided* by Priscilla Cummings – about the transition year a girl spends at a specialized school for the blind (rang true to my own time at one).
*Where You See Yourself* by Claire Forrest – about a girl with Cerebral Palsy individuating from her mom.
*The Nowhere Girls* by Amy Reed – Not about disability, but one of the ensemble is the most accurate depiction of what it was like to be an Autistic teen I’ve ever read.
Get A Life, Chloe Brown, by Talia Hibbert. Chloe has a chronic pain disorder. It’s part of a series of 3 novels in which all of them also read as neurodivergent. The descriptions of the chronic pain lifestyle is spot-on.
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling is about a girl who was born with no arms. It’s middle grade, but I still thought it was a fun read and really enjoyed it.
Say Hello, by Carly Findlay (non fiction).