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Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled (1996)

by Nancy Mairs

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In a blend of intimate memoir and passionate advocacy, Nancy Mairs takes on the subject woven through all her writing: disability and its effect on life, work, and spirit.
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A different approach to the standard disabled biography. Nancy Mairs is very blunt, and at times shocking in her honesty. Her point of view is less that of a person with MS, and more from the approach of a women living life from a wheelchair. I appreciate her blunt appraisal and the various affects of an obvious disability while living life. ( )
  need2sleep | Mar 15, 2009 |
A lot of other books refer to this book as the authoritative book in the biographies-of-people-with-MS category, and I think I went into it with above-average expectations due to this. The first few chapters almost had me putting it away, but it redeemed itself in the later chapters. I'm not sure there was anything about it that really bothered me, it just wasn't above-average like I went into it expecting. A fairly good, if inconsistent, MS-related-biograpy. ( )
  sarahemm | Apr 14, 2007 |
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There is only one question: how to love this world. --Mary Oliver "Spring"
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for Andrew Hrycyna enabler par excellence
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I cannot begin to write this book.
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For some reason, at any rate, the English attitude seens to be that infirmity, in and of itself, deserves compensation and solicitude. In the States, these is nothing meritorious about affliction. On the contrary, it is deemed shameful and at least a little suspect, as though one had become crippled on purpose and must be given as little consideration as possible lest one be tempted to suffer even more.
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