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Growing Up Disabled in Australia by Carly Findlay
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
have been wanting to read more contemporary australian stories (definitely not those convict girl books my grandma used to give me) and this was a great place to start since there was such a range of voices.
saved so many good quotes from here that range from being funny, heart wrenching, inspiring and informative. so here are a couple :
Et Lux (also, light) = Under the medical model I am considered disabled because I require a wheelchair for mobility; under the social model I am disabled because so few spaces are wheelchair accessible. I am quite fond of Alison Kafer’s political/relational model of disability, which acknowledges the ways in which disability is constructed in political and interpersonal terms. Disability isn’t located only in the body, but in the way our bodies interact with the world and with the people around us
Forever Fixing = Every effort was focused on ‘getting me well’, no matter the consequences. • The social model of disability gave me a framework for understanding my chronic illness, but it sometimes had little room for my actual experience of being sick
Falling in Love, Fanfic, and Bone Fusion = ‘You can’t be a lesbian and disabled,’ she wailed. ‘Why would you do that to yourself?’ • I listened to The Smiths on repeat, before realising that Morrissey is the actual worst.
saved so many good quotes from here that range from being funny, heart wrenching, inspiring and informative. so here are a couple :
Et Lux (also, light) = Under the medical model I am considered disabled because I require a wheelchair for mobility; under the social model I am disabled because so few spaces are wheelchair accessible. I am quite fond of Alison Kafer’s political/relational model of disability, which acknowledges the ways in which disability is constructed in political and interpersonal terms. Disability isn’t located only in the body, but in the way our bodies interact with the world and with the people around us
Forever Fixing = Every effort was focused on ‘getting me well’, no matter the consequences. • The social model of disability gave me a framework for understanding my chronic illness, but it sometimes had little room for my actual experience of being sick
Falling in Love, Fanfic, and Bone Fusion = ‘You can’t be a lesbian and disabled,’ she wailed. ‘Why would you do that to yourself?’ • I listened to The Smiths on repeat, before realising that Morrissey is the actual worst.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Medical content, and Medical trauma