Every Cripple a Superhero Keller Christoph
Every Cripple a Superhero Keller Christoph Most stories of disability follow a familiar pattern: Life Before Accident. For Christoph Keller, it was different: his childhood diagnosis with a form of…
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Every Cripple a Superhero Keller Christoph
Most stories of disability follow a familiar pattern: Life Before Accident. For Christoph Keller, it was different: his childhood diagnosis with a form of Spinal Muscular Atrophy only revealed what had been with him since birth. Life After Accident.
There is no cure. SMA III, the 'kindest one', allows those who have it to live a long life, and it progresses slowly. By the age of 25, he had to use a wheelchair some of the time.
'There were two of me: Walking Me. Rolling Me.' By 32, he could still walk into a restaurant with a cane or on somebody's arm. At 45, 'Rolling Me' took over altogether.
Intimate, absurdist and winningly frank, Every Cripple a Superhero is at once a memoir of life with a progressive disorder, and a profound exploration of the challenges of loving, being loved, and living a public life - navigating restaurants, aeroplanes, museums and artists'