[ SECRET POST #3420 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3420 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[likeadeuce]

It sounds like reading some perspectives about disabilities might be helpful. Perhaps reading some memoirs or blogs by people who have lived with disabilities or chronic illnesses would be helpful to you both as a writer and as somebody trying to come to terms with this experience.

[lb_lee]

Yes this! I can make recs if you like, OP, I've got a lot of awesome books/comics I can rec, including ones posted publicly online or fairly easy to find in an US library!

EDIT: you know what screw it, just in case OP never shows... BEHOLD MY LIST OF AWESOME DISABLED STUFF!

Too Late To Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life, by Harriet McBride. A book of anecdotes told by a Southern lawyer, covering things like a trip to Cuba, wheelchair repair, and her hatred of Jerry Lewis's charity drives.

Laughing at My Nightmare, by Shane Burcaw. Started as a blog, then became a book, which is the part I know. Also slice-of-life autobio stories from how he managed to destroy two motors of his wheelchair trying to help a pal slam-dunk (don't ask), his road trip across the country, his first girlfriend, and so on. WAY younger than McBride.

Marbles, by Ellen Forney. An amazing comics memoir of a bisexual bipolar cartoonist trying to get her shit together. I'm not bipolar, but I still rely on some of the advice in this book to keep track of my own symptoms and mood.

Inside Life, by Kimball Anderson. A friend of mine who does poetry comics about chronic fatigue and agorophobia, among other things.

Caro Doodles, by Caro Robinson. Another comics friend of mine who does stuff about being Deaf. (I'm HoH myself, though raised in a totally different way, which has led to fascinating conversations.)

Exile and Pride, by Eli Clare. This one is out of print and hard to find, I think (hopefully I'm wrong and it's back in print), but it's short and packs a punch. Clare talks about being queer, being disabled, being rural, being poor, and the massive culture clash therein. (Clare has since come out as a genderqueer trans man.)

I also make mental health comics myself, so I might as well add my name to the list. But I have more names if folks want more! :D

[likeadeuce]

Wow, thanks! I love 'Marbles' but haven't encountered the rest of these. Thank you so much!

[lb_lee]

MOAR DISABLED COMICS BY MY PEOPLE

Cuckoo, by Madison Clell. The only other comic I know by and about multiples.

Various comics by Laurel Lynn Leake, a friend of mine. Covers mostly anxiety and depression.

12 Spoons, by Rebecca Gundlach, another friend of mine. Chronic pain and wheelchair stuff. (She's also doing a comic about face-blindness, which she has, for the Boundless science comics anthology!)

Whew okay, now I'm starting to run a little low. But I seem to have gotten hooked into the queer disabled DIY comics scene of New England, and it's a pretty small pond, so I know a LOOOOOTTTTTT of people.