Miracle Boy Grows Up How the Disability Rights Revolution Saved My Sanity

Name: Miracle Boy Grows Up How the Disability Rights Revolution Saved My Sanity
Price: 7.03 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781616087319

ISBN-10: 1616087315

ISBN-13: 9781616087319

Edition: 2012

Authors: Ben Mattlin

List price: $24.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

2 new & used from $7.03

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Ben Mattlin lives a normal, independent life. Why is that interesting? Because Mattlin was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a congenital weakness from which he was expected to die in childhood. Not only did Mattlin live through childhood, he became one of the first students in a wheelchair to attend Harvard, from which he graduated and became a professional writer. His advantage? Mattlin’s life happened to parallel the growth of the disability rights movement, so that in many ways he did not feel that he was disadvantaged at all, merely different.Miracle Boy Grows Up is a witty, unsentimental memoir that you won’t forget, told with engrossing intelligence and a unique perspective on…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/14/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Ben Mattlin was born in New York in 1962 with spinal muscularatrophy, a congenital muscle-wasting disease. He graduatedfrom Harvard in 1984 and is an NPR commentator and frequentcontributor to many different financial magazines. He has writtenon disability and other topics for Self magazine, USA Today, the LosAngeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune. He has also appeared onCNN, ABC's Prime Time Live, and the E!Entertainment Network,amongst other venues, to discuss his disability-related writings. Hecurrently lives in Los Angeles, California.



Introduction



Two Roads Diverged in Apartment 2B



Disability as a Social Condition



Divorce, Bar Mitzvahs, and Preadolescence-Wasn't My Life Hard Enough?



My Unfortunate, Life-Changing Incarceration



The End of Childhood



Maman Est Morte



What I Gained and Lost in College



If No One Notices a Disability, Does It Really Exist?



Becoming More Disabled



Nesting



The Bubble Bursts



The Ghanaian Connection