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From the challenges of travelling when blind to becoming a parent for the first time, Kika & Me is the moving, heart-warming and inspirational story of Dr Amit Patel’s sight-loss journey and how one guide dog changed his world. 'Inspiring and compelling . . . rekindles one's faith in human...

A successful and optimistic Autistic Multimillionaire chronicles his journey with Autism and reflects on how the disorder has helped and hindered him as he went from high school dropout to successful husband, father, executive, and entrepreneur.

Escaping the Vulture's Shadow is a deeply personal and eye-opening memoir by Spencer Stern, chronicling his two-decade-long battle with the psychiatric system. Stern's journey began with an unexpected mental health diagnosis in his early twenties, leading to years of interventions, psychotropic medications, and repeated hospitalisations. In a candid and reflective narrative, Stern exposes the harsh realities of modern psychiatric practices, questioning their effectiveness and ethical foundations.

As a result of complications during the birthing process, Amanda was born with cerebral palsy. This book recounts the trauma she experienced as a child, enduring physical, mental, sexual, and emotional abuse from her family, and having a mother who cannot tolerate her cerebral palsy. Amanda found comfort and solace in her grandmother, her '"Gragwa", throughout her childhood. Amanda exposes the naked truth of life with cerebral palsy as she deals with growing up and various relationship issues, friendship issues, loss, and many other things.

In Morant's "Letters to My Son, Rōman," an authentic real-time journal, the author of the #1 release, "The Happy Has Been," shares his personal love letters to his son, Rōman, begun while still occupying Mom's belly. It was later, before Rōman's second year, that he was diagnosed with "severe autism," non-verbal in nature.

Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama in 1880, Helen Keller lived the first two years of her life as any normal seeing and hearing child might. Then, one dreary February, Helen was stricken with a mysterious illness that left her blind and deaf. It wasn’t until the age of six, when Miss...

Close your eyes and get ready to see the world in a new and more positive way. As a child in Toronto, Molly Burke was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa and became completely sightless as a teenager. Now an award-winning YouTube star and global influencer, Molly shares what it’s like to be a purple-haired, pink-obsessed fashion and makeup lover in a seeing world. She speaks with authenticity and candor about how she tackles the preconceived notions we have around blindness; Molly has made it her mission to make us see her - and ourselves- in a wholly empowering way.

Begleite mich durch ein Jahr auf meiner Heilreise mit Fibromyalgie und anderen unsichtbaren Erkrankungen. Ich zeige dir offene und ehrliche Einblicke in meinen Alltag mit chronischer Erschöpfung und Schmerzen, und was mir hilft, mit meinen Erkrankungen zu leben, welche Rolle Akzeptanz und Dankbarkeit dabei spielen und welche Erfahrungen ich im Medizimdschungel gemacht habe. Erlebe mit mir, wie sich mein schwerer Schmerzgepäck-Rucksack leichter durchs Leben tragen lässt.

You were doing everything right —until suddenly, life forced you to stop. The stopping wasn’t a choice. It was an ambush. One moment, life was full of lists and roles. The next, everything went silent. And in that unasked-for stillness came the haunting question: If I’m not accomplishing something, do I still matter? That’s the question Leisa Wallace faced in 2019, when a diagnosis of aggressive-onset multiple sclerosis unraveled not only her body but her entire sense of self.

¿Cómo puede una crisis ayudarte a encontrar tu propósito de vida? Todos hemos experimentado alguna crisis en algún momento. Hay de todos colores y sabores. Cuando llegan, se abre una tangente que nos puede llevar hacia arriba o hacia abajo. Es fundamental que, en esos momentos, nuestra actitud sea la correcta para que esa tangente se dirija hacia nuestro propósito de vida. En este libro, te contaré la crisis que viví. A medida que vayas pasando las páginas, descubrirás cómo logré salir adelante y encontré mi propósito en medio del caos. Davo Guzmán es creador de audiobranding y talento de voz.

Unmasking Autism meets Notes on Being a Man in this one-of-a-kind reimagining of contemporary masculinity in the autism community. Society’s definition of masculinity—celebrating aggression, sexual conquest, and athleticism—is limiting and outdated for any contemporary man. But it’s even...

On a bitterly cold night in January 2012, Haatchi the dog was hit over the head, and abandoned on a railway line to be hit by a train. The driver saw the adorable five-month old Anatolian Shepherd moments too late. Somehow, the terrified puppy survived the blood loss from his partially severed...

Lina Hjalmarsson Lyons’s clarity about her own autism experience confronts the listener with the confusing anomalies inherent in this complex condition. “I think it’s so hard for people to incorporate the paradox of autism,” she writes. “I think that life with someone on the severe end of the spectrum is a life full of suffering and a life full of bliss.”

DAYGLOW MAN – A LIFE TOLD HONESTLY This is not a cosy memoir. Dayglow Man is the story of growing up in a world where chaos was normal and safety was never guaranteed. A working-class childhood in 1970s London Violence, neglect, and instability Boarding schools, care homes, and tough streets Learning to survive before learning to live Phillip Spires writes without polish and without pretence. The fights, the fear, the confusion – it’s all here. Nothing is softened, nothing is dressed up, and nothing is written for sympathy. But this isn’t just a book about hardship.

Roni Sasaki was born with only one leg. She struggled to love herself and asked God "why me?" She secretly dreamed of being an Olympic athlete, believing it was impossible. In her first book, Roni candidly shares about growing up without a leg. She will inspire you to embrace your flaws and accept them as God's gift. Her story of triumph is both entertaining and moving.

Paul Rivera never imagined that his life would be measured by oxygen levels, hospital bracelets, and the relentless uncertainty of serious illness. Diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis and later facing a life-threatening pulmonary embolism, he was forced into a fight he never chose—but one that would ultimately transform his life.

It’s time to remake the world – the ground-breaking book on what steps we should all be taking for the autistic people in our lives. The modern world is built for neurotypicals: needless noise, bright flashing lights, small talk, phone calls, unspoken assumptions and unwritten rules – it...

This Autistic Girl Went to Japan is the inspiring story of a young woman who moved halfway around the world in pursuit of happiness. With humor and remarkable candor, Bianca describes the challenges of applying for a visa during a time of terrifying uncertainty, slogging through endless red tape, and the loneliness that comes with being a stranger in a strange land. Oh, and how she wound up evicting a bat from her new apartment, attending a Pokémon GO event with a bunch of middle-aged women, and discovering the best thrift store in all of Tokyo.

Jaap Bressers, ooit topmanager, vertelt hoe hij als rolstoelgebruiker met humor en kleine daden zijn leven veranderde. Ontdek hoe jij je toegevoegde waarde kunt vergroten en anderen kunt versterken.

If I Were You, I’d Kill Myself is an unapologetic, hilarious, and triumphant memoir that revolutionizes what it means to be disabled. Imani Barbarin was two years old when she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, a congenital motor disability that affects her ability to walk without crutches...