How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Sing 'The Robot Song' single work   prose  
Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Sing 'The Robot Song'
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Notes

  • Author's note:

    A special thanks to Lizzie Lamb, who was the source of many of the good ideas in this piece. The best one came months later and couldn't be put in elsewhere, so here it is: 'Everything can traumatise you: you just have to pick which ones you will let define you.'

    This piece was originally commissioned by Alison Croggon on Witness Performance.

Affiliation Notes

  • Writing Disability in Australia

    Type of disability Autism; Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
    Type of character Primary
    Point of view First person (autobiographical)

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    y separately published work icon Growing Up Disabled in Australia Carly Findlay (editor), Collingwood : Black Inc. , 2021 18429837 2021 anthology autobiography

    'My body and its place in the world seemed quite normal to me.

    'I didn’t grow up disabled, I grew up with a problem. A problem those around me wanted to fix.

    'We have all felt that uncanny sensation that someone is watching us.

    'The diagnosis helped but it didn’t fix everything.

    'Don’t fear the labels.'

    'One in five Australians have a disability. And disability presents itself in many ways. Yet disabled people are still underrepresented in the media and in literature.

    'Growing Up Disabled in Australia is the fifth book in the highly acclaimed, bestselling Growing Up series. It includes interviews with prominent Australians such as Senator Jordon Steele-John and Paralympian Isis Holt, poetry and graphic art, as well as more than 40 original pieces by writers with a disability or chronic illness.

    'Contributors include Dion Beasley, Astrid Edwards, Jessica Walton, Carly-Jay Metcalfe, Gayle Kennedy and El Gibbs.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

         Collingwood : Black Inc. , 2021     pg. 131-141
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  • Robot Song Jolyon James , 2018 single work drama
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