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A review by gattolinos_nerdy_nook
Growing Up Disabled in Australia by Carly Findlay
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Growing up disabled in Australia is a very powerful and thought provoking book. It is part of the Growing up in Australia memoir anthology series.
When reading this book you get to experience the thoughts and feelings of those who have a disability, both seen and unseen, as well as how they get treated by those around them. It really makes you think about your own actions and thoughts, conscious and unconscious.
For example the book community has challenges, readathons, and other activities to promote people of colour and those in the LGBTQIA+ community, books are now tagged so people can easily find them, but there is very little for disability rep.
Upon further thinking and reflection I remember the MS (Multiple Sclerosis) readathon that my school participated in growing up, which is still running today, and I think about how little this is mentioned in our book communities. Granted this is a school, mainly primary school readathon fundraiser, but we are adults (for the majority of us) and have the ability to make our own readathons, prompt this one, and even donate.
I feel like the MS readathon, and other events, challenges, or future readathons should be created and promoted to have a more welcoming and inclusive community. I'm going to make a start and read books with disability rep and by disabled authors, and support them so we have more of their books to read and voices to hear in the future.
When reading this book you get to experience the thoughts and feelings of those who have a disability, both seen and unseen, as well as how they get treated by those around them. It really makes you think about your own actions and thoughts, conscious and unconscious.
For example the book community has challenges, readathons, and other activities to promote people of colour and those in the LGBTQIA+ community, books are now tagged so people can easily find them, but there is very little for disability rep.
Upon further thinking and reflection I remember the MS (Multiple Sclerosis) readathon that my school participated in growing up, which is still running today, and I think about how little this is mentioned in our book communities. Granted this is a school, mainly primary school readathon fundraiser, but we are adults (for the majority of us) and have the ability to make our own readathons, prompt this one, and even donate.
I feel like the MS readathon, and other events, challenges, or future readathons should be created and promoted to have a more welcoming and inclusive community. I'm going to make a start and read books with disability rep and by disabled authors, and support them so we have more of their books to read and voices to hear in the future.