LEADER 00000cam 2200577Ki 4500 001 ocn829167065 003 OCoLC 005 20160518075600.7 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 130306s2012 nyuaf o 000 0aeng d 020 9781620875148|q(electronic bk.) 020 1620875144|q(electronic bk.) 035 (OCoLC)829167065 040 VALIL|beng|epn|erda|cVALIL|dN$T|dTEFOD|dIDEBK|dYDXCP |dTEFOD|dOCLCQ 043 n-us--- 049 GTKE 050 4 RC935.A8|bM38 2012eb 060 4 2012 H-184 060 4 WE 550 082 04 617.4/82044092|223 100 1 Mattlin, Ben,|d1962- 245 10 Miracle boy grows up :|bhow the disability rights revolution saved my sanity /|cBen Mattlin. 264 1 New York, NY :|bSkyhorse Pub.,|c[2012] 264 4 |c©2012 300 1 online resource (xii, 194 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :|billustrations (chiefly color) 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 505 0 Two Roads Diverged in Apartment 2-B -- 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 Ghanian Connection. 520 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 living with a disability in the United States. 588 0 Print version record. 600 10 Mattlin, Ben,|d1962- 650 0 Spinal muscular atrophy|xPatients|zUnited States |vBiography. 650 0 People with disabilities|zUnited States|vBiography. 650 0 Authors with disabilities|zUnited States|vBiography. 650 0 People with disabilities|xCivil rights|zUnited States. 650 0 Social movements|zUnited States. 650 7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY|xPersonal Memoirs.|2bisacsh 650 7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY|xMedical.|2bisacsh 650 7 MEDICAL|xSurgery|xGeneral.|2bisacsh 650 12 Spinal Muscular Atrophies of Childhood. 651 2 United States. 650 22 Civil Rights|xlegislation & jurisprudence. 650 22 Disabled Persons. 655 2 Personal Narratives. 776 08 |iPrint version:|aMattlin, Ben, 1962-|tMiracle boy grows up.|dNew York, NY : Skyhorse Pub., ©2012|z9781616087319 |w(DLC) 2012017734|w(OCoLC)759908794 914 ocn829167065 994 93|bGTK
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