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Growing Up Disabled in Australia

By: Carly Findlay
Narrated by: Carly Findlay
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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 Australia, New Zealand & Oceania Disability Awareness Oceania People with Disabilities Social Sciences Specific Demographics World Literature
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Heartbreaking at times but absolutely amazing to read all these different accounts and memoirs of people’s lives in a body that is different from the norm.

insight into life with a living with a disability

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Loved it. Well narrated by Carly. I think everyone living in Australia should read it!

wonderful book

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Undeniably one of the most important books a person will read in their lifetime. Moving, powerful and educational.

A book all Australians should read.

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Thank you Carly for your great work with this book! Loved all the different stories, all the different voices and all the different disabled perspectives! Absolutely crucial for everyone to read and learn. I’m so proud of you and the work of everyone involved. - Akii :)

Fabulously intersectional and representative

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.