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Salifu Sesay was but a toddler when a rebel attacker chose to plunge a machete into his skull. Against all odds, this victim of the Blood Diamond conflict in Sierra Leone, West Africa survived. A few years later, fate continued to intervene and Salifu was placed into the arms of Ann Miller, a woman from Overland Park, Kansas, whose life from that moment on, would never be the same. This is their mother/son love story.

A Life in Too Many Margins is a literary episodic tale featuring David, an autistic, chronically ill, and deeply exhausted queer individual. He's survived a few too many doctors with God complexes and an education system that couldn't accommodate a paper cut, let alone a brain like his. Now he's trying to keep it together long enough to get out and figure out what a life outside of survival mode even looks like.

This book contains raw, unfiltered testimony from a life shaped by childhood trauma, poverty and chronic pain. It moves in fragments — from car to bed to memory — documenting survival rather than offering inspiration. Written and narrated by the author, this audiobook preserves the voice exactly as lived.

Questo libro nasce dal bisogno di raccontare la quotidianità di una famiglia per tre quarti neurodivergente: e così, tra compiti a ostacoli e lettere che si rincorrono, prende forma un racconto vivo, umano, che mescola il memoir al consiglio pratico, l'esperienza personale alla riflessione condivisa; senza la pretesa di insegnare, ma con il desiderio di offrire uno spaccato di vita e uno sguardo onesto su ciò che significa convivere con la dislessia - da genitori e da figli -, affrontando le difficoltà ma anche valorizzando le risorse, i talenti, le prospettive diverse.

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER Selma Blair has played many roles: Ingenue in Cruel Intentions. Preppy ice queen in Legally Blonde. Muse to Karl Lagerfeld. Advocate for the multiple sclerosis community. But before all of that, Selma was known best as … a mean baby. In a memoir that is as wildly...

We all face obstacles that threaten to hold us back. For Robert Paylor, his paralysis wasn’t a metaphor. In the biggest game of his life, competing for the collegiate rugby national championship, Robert suffered a catastrophic spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed from the neck down. Doctors told him he’d never walk or move his hands again. But Robert refused to accept that fate.

Ife Thomas’ Five Life Lessons from a Motivational Speaker’ is a deeply personal and inspiring journey through the author’s life challenges and triumphs. Ife shares her experiences of overcoming obstacles as a neurodiverse individual, from childhood rejection and grappling with an undiagnosed autism spectrum disorder to professional setbacks and personal growth. Her book weaves powerful narratives from her life with practical, actionable steps for personal development.

Hallo, ich bin eine Autistin im "Spektrum" und erfuhr es erst mit 30 Jahren! Natürlich war ich bei einem Spezialisten, denn zu Anfang konnte ich mir nicht vorstellen, tatsächlich eine Autistin zu sein. Denn ich hatte keine Ahnung von Autismus. Das was ich las, gefiel mir nicht. Um es kurz zu machen, ich wollte keine Autistin sein, bin es aber und es war ein heftiger Schock, behindert zu sein, ohne es gewusst zu haben. Neben dem Schock, fühlte ich mich schrecklich alleine und irgendwie von mir selbst im Stich gelassen. Denn ich lebte ein Leben, womit ich nicht klar gekommen bin.

The stories in this book are about women who are married to, or were once partnered with, men on the mild end of the autism spectrum, formerly known as Asperger’s syndrome. These women are not autistic, so their relationships are considered neurodiverse (meaning there’s a neurotypical person in a relationship with a neurodivergent person). The focus within the stories is Cassandra Syndrome. A very life-altering phenomenon that often occurs—and usually remains unaddressed—within these relationships.

The moving true story of Linda Crosby, an accident survivor who was left permanently and totally disabled, and Roy Crosby, her devoted husband and caregiver, The Day My Life Changed: An Accident Survivor offers a glimpse into the lives of an everyday couple whose love endured and thrived, even in the most impossible odds.

This memoir was written to honor my youngest brother’s influence over my life—the good, the bad, and the ugly, of living with a Down Syndrome sibling. It tells the story of the children of my family, despite our parents’ frailties, remaining committed to each other through life’s many changes and separations. Who I am today is directly related to who I needed to become.

Born 10 weeks premature and given only a 10 percent chance of survival, Rene entered the world fighting for her life. Diagnosed with cerebral palsy, she grew up navigating a society that often defined her by limitations rather than potential. But this audiobook tells a different story—one of determination, courage, humor, and an unshakable belief in the power of being heard.

Cory Smit never had a chance to grow up as a normal kid. Between the extreme views pushed on him in church to being bullied at a series of schools, it took years to understand the worst of his trouble at home. After surviving physical and psychological trauma at the hands of his adoptive parents, Cory entered custody of the State of Arizona through a series of misunderstandings and misguided interventions.

What if you sat down and wrote your own eulogy while you were still alive? At age twenty-six, podcast host Bradley Dryburgh sat down and wrote his own eulogy. Living with cystic fibrosis, a chronic and life-limiting illness, Bradley has spent his life confronting mortality head-on. But nothing...

This is a seminal work that allows you to see the world from the eyes of a person with muscular dystrophy. It's important to keep your eyes open as you put this book down and start today by making a contribution to those with disabilities so that they too can live life to the fullest. Evin lived his whole life knowing that his days were numbered and that every single event or activity could possibly be his last. I want you to deeply imagine the mental pressures these types of thoughts can cause.

One moment can change everything — but it doesn’t have to end the story. In If You Have Five Minutes to Spare , Dominic Hurley BEM shares an honest, often funny, and deeply human memoir of life after a traumatic brain injury. After a life-altering accident at just twenty-one, Dominic was forced to rethink everything he thought he knew about normality, disability, memory, and identity. This is not a polished tale of instant triumph. It’s a real story of recovery — told with humour, frustration, warmth, and unfiltered truth.

The Light You Don’t See is a candid and personal account of sudden sight loss and the unexpected journey that followed. When Ashley St John’s vision changed without warning, life reshaped itself instantly. What follows is an honest exploration of fear, resilience, and the slow but determined rebuilding of identity. Told with clarity, warmth, and down-to-earth humour, this audiobook reflects on family, independence, the shifting meaning of work, and the quiet strength that often goes unnoticed until life demands it.

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This program is read by Michael J. Fox. A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox. The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as...

This true love story follows Lars and Amanda, two twenty-somethings who fall deeply in love, with big plans for their future together, only to have the rug pulled out from beneath them when Lars is diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia at age 24. They must learn to adapt to "medical life", putting their hopes and dreams on pause, navigating side effects and difficult emotions, and missing out on the beauty of every day moments that some may take for granted.