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.
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