Falling for myself: a memoir /
Personnes handicapées (biographies), Femmes (biographies), Canadiens (biographies), Auteurs canadiens (documentaires)
Audio avec voix humaine, Braille avec transcription humaine
Résumé
Born with congenital anomalies in both feet, then called birth defects, Dorothy Ellen Palmer was adopted as a toddler by a wounded 1950s family who had no idea how to handle the tangled complexities of adoption and disability. From repeated… childhood surgeries to an activist awakening at university to decades as a feminist teacher, mom, improv coach and unionist, she tried to hide being different. But now, standing proud with her walker, she's sharing her journey. Navigating abandonment, abuse and ableism, she finds her birth parents and a new chosen family in the disability community. 2019.