Besondere Bedürfnisse 10

Walking Together With Huntington's Disease: One family's 12-Month Journey With HD

Autor: Sharon Hammond Nordstrom

Too Many Reasons to Live

Autor: Rob Burrow

Dietrich... ein Autist erzählt: Autobiografische Einblicke in das reiche (Innen-) Leben eines Autisten

Autor: Dietmar Zöller

Vom Glück, Pech zu haben: Wie man an einem Schicksalsschlag wachsen kann - Meine 10 Grundsätze der Resilienz

Autoren: Denise Schindler, Manfred Otzelberger

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

Herausgeber: Alice Wong

Mein Weg zum Cochlea Implantat: Eine Achterbahnfahrt der Gefühle

Autor: Tanja Dedy

Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism

Autor: Dawn Prince-Hughes Ph.D.

Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected (TED Books)

Nnedi Okorafor

A powerful journey from star athlete to sudden paralysis to creative awakening, award-winning science-fiction writer Nnedi Okorafor shows that what we think are our limitations have the potential to become our greatest strengths.

Nnedi Okorafor was never supposed to be paralyzed. A college track star and budding entomologist, Nnedi's lifelong battle with scoliosis was just a bump in her plan - something a simple operation would easily correct. But when Nnedi wakes from the surgery to find she can't move her legs, her entire sense of self begins to waver.  

Confined to a hospital bed for months, unusual things begin to happen. Psychedelic bugs crawl her hospital walls; strange dreams visit her nightly. Nnedi begins to put these experiences into writing, conjuring up strange, fantastical stories. What Nnedi discovers during her confinement would prove to be the key to her life as a successful science-fiction author: In science fiction, when something breaks, something greater often emerges from the cracks.

In Broken Places & Outer Spaces, Nnedi takes the listener on a journey from her hospital bed deep into her memories, from her painful first experiences with racism as a child in Chicago to her powerful visits to her parents' hometown in Nigeria. From Frida Kahlo to Mary Shelly, she examines great artists and writers who have pushed through their limitations, using hardship to fuel their work. Through these compelling stories and her own, Nnedi reveals a universal truth: What we perceive as limitations have the potential to become our greatest strengths - far greater than when we were unbroken.

A guide for anyone eager to understand how their limitations might actually be used as a creative springboard, Broken Places & Outer Spaces is an inspiring look at how to open up new windows in your mind.

Meniere Man Let's Get Better: A Memoir of Meniere's Disease

Meniere Man

The PDA Paradox

Thompson

Stronger

Jeff Bauman, Bret Witter

What it Means to be Human: A Philosophical Memoir

Robert Rowland Smith

Plastic Wings: The Ups and Downs of a Bipolar Pilot

Gerry Breen

Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum

Jennifer Cook O'Toole

Wolfgang Schäuble: Zwei Leben

Hans Peter Schütz

Unblinded: One Man's Courageous Journey Through Darkness to Sight

Traci Medford-Rosow, Kevin Coughlin

The Incantations of Daniel Johnston

Scott McClanahan

Fighting Parkinson's...and Winning: A memoir of my recovery from Parkinson's Disease (English Edition)

Autor: Howard Shifke

Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions (English Edition)

Autor: Susan R. Barry
Vorwort: Oliver Sacks

Raising A Rare Girl: A memoir about parenting, disability and the beauty of being human (English Edition)

Autor: Heather Lanier