Growing Up Disabled in Australia by Carly Findlay (English) Paperback Book

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A rich collection of writing from those negotiating disability in their lives - a group whose voices are not heard often enough'My body and its place in the world seemed normal to me. Why wouldn't it?''I didn't grow up disabled; I grew up with a problem. A problem that those around me wanted to fix.''We have all felt that uncanny sensation that someone is watching us.''The diagnosis helped but it didn't fix everything.''Don't fear the labels.''That identity, which I feared for so long, is now one of my greatest qualities.''I had become disabled - not just by my disease, but by the way the world treated me. When I found that out, everything changed.'One in five Australians has a disability. And disability presents itself in many ways. Yet disabled people are still underrepresented in the media and in literature. In Growing Up Disabled in Australia - compiled by writer and appearance activist Carly Findlay OAM - more than forty writers with a disability or chronic illness share their stories, in their own words. The result is illuminating.Contributors include senator Jordon Steele-John, paralympian Isis Holt, Dion Beasley, Sam Drummond, Astrid Edwards, Sarah Firth, El Gibbs, Eliza Hull, Gayle Kennedy, Carly-Jay Metcalfe, Fiona Murphy, Jessica Walton and many more.'Grips the reader by the collar while pulling the rug out from under their feet. Like all good writing, these pieces not only put us in the writers' shoes but up-end our ideas about where the disability lies.' -Fiona Capp, The Sydney Morning Herald

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Carly Findlay OAM is a writer, speaker and appearance activist. She is the author of memoir Say Hello and the editor of Growing Up Disabled in Australia. She has been published in the ABC, The Guardian, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, CNN and Vogue.

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A rich collection of writing from those negotiating disability in their lives - a group whose voices are not heard often enough

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A rich collection of writing from those negotiating disability in their lives - a group whose voices are not heard often enough

Details ISBN176064143X Author Carly Findlay Publisher Black Inc. ISBN-10 176064143X ISBN-13 9781760641436 Format Paperback Imprint Black Inc. Place of Publication Melbourne Country of Publication Australia Year 2021 Publication Date 2021-02-02 Language English UK Release Date 2021-02-02 Pages 320 Narrator Jonathan Glover Illustrator Robin Rosenthal Birth 1939 Death 1988 Affiliation Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Bipolar Clinic and Reseach Program, Massachusetts General Hospital Position Associate Professor of Psychiatry Qualifications Ph.D. DEWEY 362.10120994 Audience General NZ Release Date 2021-02-01 AU Release Date 2021-02-01 We've got this

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