Download or read book Sitting Pretty written by Rebekah Taussig and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most. Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), inspirational (Helen Keller), or angelic (Forrest Gump). None of this felt right; and as she got older, she longed for more stories that allowed disability to be complex and ordinary, uncomfortable and fine, painful and fulfilling. Writing about the rhythms and textures of what it means to live in a body that doesn’t fit, Rebekah reflects on everything from the complications of kindness and charity, living both independently and dependently, experiencing intimacy, and how the pervasiveness of ableism in our everyday media directly translates to everyday life. Disability affects all of us, directly or indirectly, at one point or another. By exploring this truth in poignant and lyrical essays, Taussig illustrates the need for more stories and more voices to understand the diversity of humanity. Sitting Pretty challenges us as a society to be patient and vigilant, practical and imaginative, kind and relentless, as we set to work to write an entirely different story.

Download or read book The View From My Wheelchair written by Ted O’Hare and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-06-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a tale of my observations and experiences of living with a progressive neurological condition. The story is from a mildly humorous perspective, in general; however, some aspects are not amusing but are addressed here as well. The book discusses several areas of living with and managing the condition and looks at working, socialising, travelling, driving, impact on family, and the reaction of people needing to interact with people in wheelchairs. There is quite a lot of information available about living with a disability, but most of it is from a medical perspective and while factual, is more geared towards an academic understanding of the condition. This book is attempting to be more focused on what works for me and allows me to do the things I want to achieve, with the assistance of my family and within the limitations of my condition. Ultimately, life is good, and people are generally well meaning and helpful, and this tale celebrates the beauty I have experienced from people I have known, those who know me, people I have worked with, and from complete strangers.

Download or read book We Can Go Anywhere written by Glen Dick and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautiful example of a child's innocence we are taught that a little imagination can take us a long way. What the rest of the world sees as a limitation becomes a great source of adventure and freedom. Little Elaina shows her dad there is much more to him than meets the eye, and in the process proves that love knows no limitations.

Download or read book My Wheelchair View written by Janice Hobbs Towns and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "My Wheelchair View', the author recollects several anecdotes relating to her family. She breaks up the stories by theme, and many stories about the same person or group of people are often placed together. While many of the stories are humorous, some of them are quite serious, such as the ones relating what it was like to be restricted to a wheelchair at the age of sixteen. This piece is made up of several stories, recollections, and vignettes as told through the eyes of the author. This piece might appeal to individuals who are interested in autobiographical nonfiction, particularly memoirs.

Download or read book Torrential Mist written by Sean Bellamy Rice Sr. and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Torrential Mist, Sean Bellamy Rice Sr. gives voice to painful diseases that many people around the world have experienced and are experiencing right now. Sean's life and his painful memories about his extreme situation and how he dealt with them, I think, will help anyone who finds themselves in traumatic situations. The book covers his life from the time he was twelve years old, all the way until the present. As his big brother, I have known him all his life, and I am in awe of his positiveness in the face of all his pain and disease. Even though he is younger than me, I have to say he is my hero. The book is so compelling and interesting, I could not put it down. Although I haven't gone through what he has experienced, it even encouraged me, with my small problems. I believe anyone who is going through trauma, disease, pain, or even mental anguish will be helped and encouraged, with God, to live a happy and triumphant life by reading Torrential Mist. -Edgar L. Rice IV Sean writes, aEURoeIt was a herculean effort trying to come up with a name for this project, but one day I was reminded of a scripture. This particular scripture has always had a profound impact on my life. In James 4:14, James, the brother of Jesus and the author of the book, reminds us that our life is but a mist that is here for only a little while then vanishes. Consider the anxiety of a pending test or a report that's due or the anticipation of an upcoming wedding or the birth of a child or perhaps the death of a loved one. During these times, life doesn't seem like a mist.aEUR When we are enveloped in those moments, in time you don't think about your mortality. Only when time passes, and you can look back on events that have transpired in our lives can we fully appreciate how true James's analogy was. Life has an uncanny ability to provide us with people, experiences, and circumstances that can turn each and every one of our lives into a aEURoeTorrential Mist.aEUR

Download or read book The View From Down Here written by Lucy Webster and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful, eye-opening insight into navigating the world as a disabled young woman Women’s lives are shaped by sexism and expectations. Disabled people’s lives are shaped by ableism and a complete lack of expectations. But what happens when you’re subjected to both sets of rules? This powerful, honest, hilarious, and furious memoir from journalist and advocate Lucy Webster looks at life at the intersection: the struggles, the joys, and the unseen realities of being a disabled woman. From navigating the worlds of education and work, dating, and friendship to managing care, contemplating motherhood, and learning to accept your body against a pervasive narrative that it is somehow broken and in need of fixing, The View From Down Here shines a light on what it really means to move through the world as a disabled woman.

Download or read book Inclusion Disability and Culture written by Santoshi Halder and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a global and social examination of how disabilities are played out and experienced around the world. It presents auto-ethnographic perspectives on disability across cultures, societies, and countries by documenting individuals’ personal narratives, thought processes and reflections. Chapter authors share cross-cultural perspectives within and across various countries, such as India, Australia, United States, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, Croatia, Brazil, South Africa, and Qatar. Adopting a self-reflective stance following qualitative research methodology, the chapter authors discuss the current challenges in the field. Next, they deconstruct disability identities, explore the complexities of communication with differently abled persons, examine inclusive policies, practices and interventions and present insights from caregivers. The book concludes with critical reflections and a look to the future of global diversity and inclusion.

Download or read book Strangers Assume My Girlfriend Is My Nurse written by Shane Burcaw and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his signature wit, twenty-something author, blogger, and entrepreneur Shane Burcaw is back with an essay collection about living a full life in a body that many people perceive as a tragedy. From anecdotes about first introductions where people patted him on the head instead of shaking his hand, to stories of passersby mistaking his able-bodied girlfriend for a nurse, Shane tackles awkward situations and assumptions with humor and grace. On the surface, these essays are about day-to-day life as a wheelchair user with a degenerative disease, but they are actually about family, love, and coming of age. Shane Burcaw is one half of the hillarious YouTube duo, Squirmy and Grubs, which he runs with his girlfriend, now fiancee, Hannah Aylward.

Download or read book Second Life written by RJ Crayton and published by . This book was released on with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Harper is being held captive by her government, with no clue why. She knows she helped a fugitive escape and that she's being constantly prodded by doctors, but her please for answers to why she's been locked away fall on deaf ears. As the normally feisty Susan's hopes of freedom dwindle, a mysterious stranger sneaks into her room and promises to help. Mystery man Rob grows close to Susan as he tries to engineer her escape, without raising the suspicion of the government holing her. While Rob had hoped he had time on his side in helping Susan get away from the government, all that changes when the duo discovers the truth behind Susan's captivity. They must speed up their plan to save her.

Download or read book The View from Down Here written by Sylvia Longmire and published by Spin the Globe. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do you want to roll today? Accessible travel writer, explorer, and photographer Sylvia Longmire asks herself this question every day as she lives her very active life from the vantage point of a power wheelchair. Despite having been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2005 and being completely unable to walk, she refuses to let that slow her down. With her sense of adventure and camera in hand, she and her electric scooter have set out to see what the world has to offer while her body still lets her. In most cases, it s impossible to truly walk in someone else s shoes. But in The View from Down Here, you can finally see the world through the eyes of a wheelchair user. From the glaciers of Iceland to the ancient ruins of Greece, you'll be amazed at what a person with a physical disability can observe and experience today, despite all the obstacles that still remain. She has captured all the raw emotion of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the soothing sounds of crashing waves in Crete, and the patience of an elderly accordion player waiting for tips in Ljubljana. After absorbing Sylvia's stunning images from across the globe, you'll want to know how you can get there, too. Sylvia became a full-time power wheelchair user in 2014, and while she traveled extensively prior to her diagnosis, she only started traveling internationally with her electric scooter in 2016. Refusing to wait for someone to be available to accompany her, Sylvia usually travels the world alone. She has documented several of her wheelchair accessible destinations in vivid photographic detail in The View from Down Here, and also writes about their wheelchair accessibility in her travel blog, Spin the Globe.

Download or read book In A Split Second written by Kyle N. Scott and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it like to grow up with cerebral palsy? How does a child cope throughout life with a disability? What obstacles will they be faced with while trying to reach their goals and achieve their dreams? Kyle Scott was diagnosed with a mystery classification of cerebral palsy at the age of sixteen months, but that hasn’t stopped him from living his life to the fullest. Surrounded by the best family and friends one could ask for, he has strived for and achieved far more than doctors, specialists, and therapists claimed he would, ultimately proving that anything is possible. This is a story about how an entire life can change in a split second, but it’s what you do with your life from that day forward that creates a life worth living. “In life, you need certain qualities: courage, the ability to smile, determination, and a never-give-up attitude!” –Kyle N. Scott “The only disability in life is a bad attitude!” –Scott Hamilton “Be Yourself; Everyone Else is Already Taken!” –Anonymous

Download or read book What My Wheelchair Taught Me written by Lisa Dianne Jones and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lisa Jones made a conscious choice to disregard what fate might have chosen for her, instead embracing and consistently using her free will to the maximum. What My Wheelchair Taught Me is about Lisa Jones, soulmate to others and how she has led her normal life, but it is also about Lisa Jones, the woman with a disability, and how her life has been shaped by disability and the world’s reaction to it. What My Wheelchair Taught Me seeks to change people’s perceptions and beliefs about people with disabilities by showing the impact Jones’ disability has had on her life, and by revealing insights into how people with disabilities are treated and why. We need to see people first for what they can do, not what they cannot do. Her writing shows readers with disabilities the true range of possibilities they have by giving a gentle push to live their own authentic lives, making their own life decisions, and achieving possibilities despite their disability. This change in perception can lead to seeing disability as an inconvenience to be managed, not as an unchangeable life sentence. People with disabilities can experience a rich range of human experiences that our culture doesn’t consider normal or necessary for people, especially women, with disabilities. Even if we have a disability, we can still do whatever we would like or want to do, just maybe not in the same way as everyone else. No one needs to be judged solely or primarily based on the things they are unable to do.

Download or read book No Thanks I ll Walk written by R. P. Judson and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for anyone who needs encouragement after suffering a life altering situation.

Download or read book Now You See It written by Richard Matheson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-08-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maximilian Delacorte was once the world's greatest stage magician--until a mysterious disease ended his career forever. Now, after months of seclusion, Max has lured his family and associates to his lonely mansion for an afternoon of magic, madness and revenge. As grisly tricks lead to ever more surprising twists, not even The Great Delacorte can tell where the illusion ends and murder begins.

Download or read book Healing Lazarus written by Lewis Richmond and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Lewis Richmond, overcoming a swift and devastating brain disease was only the beginning of an intense, protracted journey of recovery. But the Buddhist teachings that sustained him throughout his adult life would prove essential in guiding him back to wellness -- and toward rebirth and transformation. In Healing Lazarus, Richmond shares the lessons he learned and the wisdom he won in sickness and in health. His words of love, hope, and courage are as inspiring as they are true. Illuminating from the first page to the last, Richmond's memoir is an affirmation -- and a celebration -- of life, and a testament to the human spirit.

Download or read book The Grotesque written by Patrick McGrath and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-07-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exuberantly spooky novel, in which horror, repressed eroticism, and sulfurous social comedy intertwine like the vines in an overgrown English garden, is now a major motion picture, starring Alan Bates, Sting, and Theresa Russell.

Download or read book Look Ma No Hands No Legs Either written by Kent Bell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Kent Bell was born on Valentines Day in 1965, he was not expected to live even twenty-four hours. Now, forty-nine years later, he just keeps going and going. In Look Ma, No Hands, No Legs Either, he narrates his life story, beginning with being born without arms or legs. In this memoir, Bell tells what its like living and thriving with a disability. From his birth, to moving regularly with his military family, to attending school and college, to accomplishing more in life than an average person, he shares the ups and downs of almost fifty years. Look Ma, No Hands, No Legs Either details how Bell, a sports enthusiast, became a scorekeeper for many activities, from Little League to the pros, including being the first disabled person to be an official scorekeeper in the 2004 USA Olympic basketball event. Bells story shows how everyday he faces insurmountable obstacles to the most simple of activities. Through fortitude and perseverance he has achieved his dreams, and he has also been proactive in working on committees and task forces to change the laws for people with disabilities. With detail and emotion, Look Ma, No Hands, No Legs Either communicates Bells determination of courage, passion, strength, endurance, integrity, and most of all, a positive attitude.