I'd like to learn more about being handicapped. I realized this is a blind spot for me and I'd like to learn more so that I can be more compassionate toward people with physical disabilities.
Any book recs that can broaden my view on this would be much appreciated.
Don’t worry, he won’t get far on foot: funny memoir about an alcoholic cartoonist who becomes paralyzed and has to deal with being disabled
Too late to die young: smart, spicy lawyer who happens to be in a wheelchair tells stories of being underestimated and shits on inspiration porn
Mean little Deaf Queer: a good look at life as a disabled person and why it’s worth living
Why I Burned My Book: essays about disability and ability
Born on a Blue Day: the memoir of someone with autism and epilepsy, telling the interesting ways their brain works
Intoxicated by my illness: Short essays about dealing with mortality and cancer
A leg to stand on: Oliver Sacks learns firsthand what it’s like to feel betrayed by your own body
Hot Cripple: kind of a gossipy memoir by a model who got hit by a car. A little lighter.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates: ridiculous tongue in cheek fiction. The main character isn’t disabled per se, but he does spend most of the book in a wheelchair.
Oh also
What Doesn’t Kill You: a look at what it’s like to be diagnosed with a chronic illness
The State of Me: the story of a woman diagnosed with a degenerative neurologic condition