Growing Up Disabled in Australia (Growing Up ... in Australia #1)

Carly Findlay, Alistair Baldwin, K.Z. Barton, Dion Beasley, Marla Bishop, Chantel Bongiovanni, Ricky Buchanan, Lucy Carpenter, Emma Di Bernardo, Belinda Downes, Sam Drummond, Kath Duncan, Robin M. Eames, Astrid Edwards, Yvonne Fein, Sarah Firth, El Gibbs, Patrick Gunasekera, Fran Henke, Isis Holt, Eliza Hull, Andy Jackson, Kit Kavanagh-Ryan, Gayle Kennedy, Jessica Knight, C.B. Mako, Kerri-Ann Messenger, Carly-Jay Metcalfe, Tom Middleditch, Oliver Mills, Fiona Murphy, Olivia Muscat, Jessica Newman-Marshall, Khanh Nguyen, Sandi Parsons, Lauren Poole, Melanie Rees, Jane Rosengrave, Iman Shaanu, Jasmine Shirrefs, Tim Slade, Jordon Steele-John, Jessica Walton, Anna Whateley, Natalia Wikana, Todd Winther, Tully Zygier

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4.40 · 10 ratings · 381 pages · Published: 02 Feb 2021
Growing Up Disabled in Australia by Carly Findlay, Alistair Baldwin, K.Z. Barton, Dion Beasley, Marla Bishop, Chantel Bongiovanni, Ricky Buchanan, Lucy Carpenter, Emma Di Bernardo, Belinda Downes, Sam Drummond, Kath Duncan, Robin M. Eames, Astrid Edwards, Yvonne Fein, Sarah Firth, El Gibbs, Patrick Gunasekera, Fran Henke, Isis Holt, Eliza Hull, Andy Jackson, Kit Kavanagh-Ryan, Gayle Kennedy, Jessica Knight, C.B. Mako, Kerri-Ann Messenger, Carly-Jay Metcalfe, Tom Middleditch, Oliver Mills, Fiona Murphy, Olivia Muscat, Jessica Newman-Marshall, Khanh Nguyen, Sandi Parsons, Lauren Poole, Melanie Rees, Jane Rosengrave, Iman Shaanu, Jasmine Shirrefs, Tim Slade, Jordon Steele-John, Jessica Walton, Anna Whateley, Natalia Wikana, Todd Winther, Tully Zygier
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.
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    Growing Up Disabled in Australia by Carly Findlay, Alistair Baldwin, K.Z. Barton, Dion Beasley, Marla Bishop, Chantel Bongiovanni, Ricky Buchanan, Lucy Carpenter, Emma Di Bernardo, Belinda Downes, Sam Drummond, Kath Duncan, Robin M. Eames, Astrid Edwards, Yvonne Fein, Sarah Firth, El Gibbs, Patrick Gunasekera, Fran Henke, Isis Holt, Eliza Hull, Andy Jackson, Kit Kavanagh-Ryan, Gayle Kennedy, Jessica Knight, C.B. Mako, Kerri-Ann Messenger, Carly-Jay Metcalfe, Tom Middleditch, Oliver Mills, Fiona Murphy, Olivia Muscat, Jessica Newman-Marshall, Khanh Nguyen, Sandi Parsons, Lauren Poole, Melanie Rees, Jane Rosengrave, Iman Shaanu, Jasmine Shirrefs, Tim Slade, Jordon Steele-John, Jessica Walton, Anna Whateley, Natalia Wikana, Todd Winther, Tully Zygier

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