Miracle Boy Grows Up: How the Disability Rights Revolution Saved My Sanity | 
pickA memoir by Ben Mattlin, who was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a congenital weakness from which he was expected to die in childhood. Not only did he 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. Mattlin‘s life happened to parallel the growth of the disability rights movement, which is detailed in this memoir with humor and wit. 3 stars
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