Amanda Apgar, "The Disabled Child: Memoirs of a Normal Future" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
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The Importance of Heterosexuality in Disability Memoirs
The first memoir that I read was called keeping Catherine by Susan Zimmerman. She stressed over and over and over again throughout the memoir that she couldn't reconcile her daughter's profound cognitive and communication disability no functional use of her hands. Paul Doherty's memoir and uncomplicated life is my favorite one to talk about this because he writes literally in the beginning of the memoir when she's born his and she's diagnosed with Jillian is diagnosed with Down syndrome. He says I will never be able to walk her down the aisle. And then she gets married at the end and she marries another she marries a man with Down syndrome and he says it's his wishes fulfilled. So just the heterosexual
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