Growing Up Disabled in Australia

By: Carly Findlay

Narrated by: Carly Findlay

My body and its place in the world seemed quite normal to me.

I didn’t grow up disabled, I grew up with a problem. A problem 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.

One in five Australians have a disability. And disability presents itself in many ways. Yet disabled people are still underrepresented in the media and in literature.

Growing Up Disabled in Australia is the fifth book in the highly acclaimed, best-selling Growing Up series. It includes interviews with prominent Australians such as Senator Jordon Steele-John and Paralympian Isis Holt.

Contributors include Dion Beasley, Astrid Edwards, Jessica Walton, Carly-Jay Metcalfe, Gayle Kennedy and El Gibbs.

©2020 Carly Findlay (P)2020 W F Howes

Important

Collections can be hard to rate. There were pieces I loved, pieces I enjoyed, pieces I didn’t love quite as much. Collections are great in that they offer a lot of different thoughts on a topic all at once and so give you a great panoramic view. Here, I loved the diversity in age, disability, race/ethnicity, thoughts, sex/gender, sexual orientation/identity, and so on.

I tend to prefer books that stick with one POV longer and offer a deeper dive. But this one was super informative and an enjoyable read.

I’m glad I read it. A lot of my disability reading has been very US centric, so it was good to read about a different country.