The Gifts of Our Limitations single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 The Gifts of Our Limitations
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'When I was a teenager, something glitched in my brain and central nervous system and my hand stopped working. Over the course of a year, I went from playing in orchestras to being unable to hold a pencil; from being in the top team of every sport I played to being unable to throw a ball. I’d baffled the world’s top neurologists and exhausted every avenue of medical testing. Contrary to all the advice I’d absorbed to that point, the harder I tried, the worse things got. The right side of my body simply did and does not cooperate with my mind’s instructions. My involuntary muscle seizures worsened and became a constant part of my life. They are to this day.' (Introduction)

Affiliation Notes

  • Writing Disability in Australia

    Type of disability Nervous system diseases; muscle spasms
    Type of character Primary
    Point of view First person

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    y separately published work icon Eureka Street vol. 31 no. 19 26 September 2021 23405710 2021 periodical issue 2021
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