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Index
Cover
Title
Contents
Foreword | Andrew Solomon
Preface | Peter Catapano
Introduction | Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
I. Justice
Becoming Disabled | Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
The Nazis’ First Victims Were the Disabled | Kenny Fries
Mental Illness Is Not a Horror Show | Andrew Solomon
Disability and the Right to Choose | Jennifer Bartlett
If You’re in a Wheelchair, Segregation Lives | Luticha Doucette
My Medicaid, My Life | Alice Wong
You Are Special! Now Stop Being Different | Jonathan Mooney
Brain Injury and the Civil Right We Don’t Think About | Joseph J. Fins
II. Belonging
I Don’t Want To Be “Inspiring” | John Altmann
The Deaf Body in Public Space | Rachel Kolb
My “Orphan Disease” Has Given Me a New Family | Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
My Life With Tourette Syndrome | Shane Fistell
The Everyday Anxiety of the Stutterer | Joseph P. Carter
How to Really See a Blind Person | Brad Snyder
The Importance of Facial Equality | Ariel Henley
Finding Refuge With the Skin I’m In | Anne Kaier
What It Means to Heal | Cyndi Jones
III. Working
I Use a Wheelchair. And Yes, I’m Your Doctor. | Cheri A. Blauwet
Standing Up for What I Need | Carol R. Steinberg
Where All Bodies Are Exquisite | Riva Lehrer
I Lost My Voice, But Help Others Find Theirs | Alex Hubbard
The “Madman” Is Back in the Building | Zack McDermott
Hildegard’s Visions, and Mine | Jenny Giering
Finding Myself on the Page | Ona Gritz
Should I Tell My Students I Have Depression? | Abby L. Wilkerson
We Are the Original Lifehackers | Liz Jackson
IV. Navigating
My Supercharged, Tricked Out, Bluetooth Wheelchair Life Force | Katie Savin
New York Has a Great Subway, If You’re Not in a Wheelchair | Sasha Blair-Goldensohn
A Symbol for “Nobody” That’s Really for Everybody | Elizabeth Guffey
Feeling My Way Into Blindness | Edward Hoagland
The Athlete in Me Won’t Stop | Todd Balf
The Dawn of the “Tryborg” | Jillian Weise
Flying While Blind | Georgina Kleege
V. Coping
My Life with Paralysis, It’s a Workout | Valerie Piro
My $1,000 Anxiety Attack | JoAnna Novak
When Life Gave Me Lemons, I Had a Panic Attack | Gila Lyons
Am I Too Embarrassed to Save My Life? | Jane Eaton Hamilton
My Paralympic Blues | Emily Rapp Black
The Hawk Can Soar | Randi Davenport
VI. Love
A Girlfriend of My Own | Daniel Simpson
Love, Eventually | Ona Gritz
How to Play the Online Dating Game, in a Wheelchair | Emily Ladau
Explaining Our Bodies, Finding Ourselves | Molly McCully Brown And Susannah Nevison
Longing for the Male Gaze | Jennifer Bartlett
Intimacy Without Touch | Elizabeth Jameson And Catherine Monahon
The Three-Legged Dog Who Carried Me | Laurie Clements Lambeth
VII. Family
Passing My Disability On to My Children | Sheila Black
I Have Diabetes. Am I to Blame? | Rivers Solomon
10 Things My Chronic Illness Taught My Children | Paula M. Fitzgibbons
The Importance of Finding Family | Alaina Leary
Trying to Embrace a “Cure” | Sheila Black
In My Mother’s Eyes, and Mine | Catherine Kudlick
A Portrait of Intimate Violence | Anne Finger
VIII. Joy
Mishearings | Oliver Sacks
Space Travel: A Vision | Daniel Simpson
Learning to Sing Again | Anne Kaier
Sensations of Sound: On Deafness and Music | Rachel Kolb
I Dance Because I Can | Alice Sheppard
Stories About Disability Don’t Have to Be Sad | Melissa Shang
In My Chronic Illness, I Found a Deeper Meaning | Elliot Kuklastories About Disability Don’T Have To Be Sad | Melissa Shang
A Disabled Life Is a Life Worth Living | Ben Mattlinstories About Disability Don’T Have To Be Sad | Melissa Shang
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