num_pages: 320
description: In this searing and seriously funny memoir Dorothy Ellen Palmer falls down. A Lot. Born with congenital anomalies then called birth defects in both feet she was adopted as a toddler by a traditional 1950s family that had no idea how to handle the interwoven complexities of adoption and disability. From repeated childhood surgeries to an activist awakening at university to decades as a feminist teacher improv coach and unionist she spent much of her life denying her disability. But now in this book written with the timing of a comedian shes sharing her journey. Palmer takes on adoption ableism ageism and childhood sexual abuse as she reckons with her past and with everyones future. In Falling for Myself she allows herself to fall and get up and fall again knees and hands bloody but determined to seek disability justice to insist we all be heard seen included and valued for who we are.
language: None
title: Falling for Myself
publisher: Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd