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Just read a great book called Wild and Crooked by Leah Thomas. One of the main characters has Cerebral Palsy (A more mild form) and his parents are a lesbian couple. The other main character is also a lesbian. A side character has ASPD. It's also implied that the character with CP is bi but it's never confirmed iirc.

Oh thank you for the recommendation! I'll look into it!

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Happy International Day for People with Disabilities!

I would like to hear everyone's favourite book featuring a disabled character!

and if you don't have one, I want you to follow this post or go do some research and find one to read!

disabled people get left out of diversity recommendations a lot, which is ridiculous given that we intersect with every other marginalisation possible. so today, we are going to do something about that

I'll start by recommending two books because I can never just suggest one book 🤭

The Degenerates by J Albert Mann is my ultimate disability rec because it's based on actual disabled history and shines an important light on how we've been treated - and in some places how we're still treated

Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White is also getting recommended because I just can't stop thinking about it. but also because two of its leads are disabled, both with facial differences and neurodivergences

i can't wait to hear everyone else's suggestions! 🧡 Happy IDPWD!

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Ignore that I am nearly a full month late

[Plain text: Ignore that I am nearly a full month late]

Oh you're kind! Thank you! I'd like to tag first @profiterole-reads and @battyaboutbooksreviews

And now for some more!

@creator-of-calm-queer-chaos @lizard-reads-the-world @disabledcharacters @duckprintspress @archiveoftheodd

And many many more that I can't think of right now. If I could personally thank everyone who made my 2024 better, I'd be even more behind than I already am!

New tag game dropped: Tag 10 people (or as many as you want ! the more the better) that made your tumblr experience this year better. Btw it doesn't only have to be mutuals, it can also be people that interact with your posts a lot/ that you follow!

Thank you to :

@aliteraryprincess, @gwendolynlerman, @dauen, @nanostudies, @tokidokitokyo, @naturalblue22, @teacherstudiies, @musings-of-a-goth, @zoueriemandzijnopmars, @punctocontropuncto @learning-to-think, @threads-of-gold, @problematicprocrastinator, @learnelle, @languageoclock, @sayitalianolearns, @dooareyastudy, @bookcub, @culmaer, @corvid-language-library, @magidioma, @salvadorbonaparte, @sprachgefuehle

I'm sure I've forgot some people but you know who you are (I hope!!)

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Update: December 2024

Added:

"Oligoarthritis" category and tag

"Unspecified Depressive Disorder" category and tag

"Panic Attacks" category and tag

"Panic Disorder" category and tag

"Unidentified Panic Disorder" category and tag

"Double Amputee" category and tag

"Leg Brace User" category

"Vascular Conditions" category and tag

"Thoracic Outlet Syndrome" category and tag

"Allergies" category and tag

"Ovarian Cancer" category and tag

"Ataxia" category and tag

"Pernicious Anemia" category and tag

"Ostomy" category and tag

"Unidentified Seizure Disorder" category and tag

"Trauma" category and tag

"Osteogenesis Imperfecta" category and tag

"WLW" category and tag

"MLM" category and tag

"Transgender Author" tag

"Clean Romance" tag

"Welsh MC" tag

"Chinese-British SC" tag

"Sri-Lankan-Canadian MC" tag

"Clean Romance" to "Themes & Tropes" page

"Brothers Best Friend" to "Themes & Tropes" page

"Only One Bed" to "Themes & Tropes" page

"M/F/M" to "Themes & Tropes" page

"Christmas" to "Themes & Tropes" page

"Dinosaurs" to "Themes & Tropes" page

"Roller Derby" to "Themes & Tropes" page

"Robin Gow" to "Disabled Authors" page

"Mattie Bukowski" to "Disabled Authors" page

"Johanna Hedva" to "Disabled Authors" page

"Lizzie Huxley-Jones" to "Disabled Authors" page

"Natalie Lloyd" to "Disabled Authors" page

"1930s" to "Settings" page

"The Virgin Islands" to "Settings" page

Entries:

'The Undaunted'- Hart, Alan L.

'The Year My Life Went Down the Toilet"- Arlow, Jake Maia

'The Christmasaurus'- Fletcher, Tom. Devries, Shane

'A Not-So Holiday Paradise'- Mitchell, Gracie Ruth

'Make You Mine This Christmas'- Huxley-Jones, Lizzie

'7 Days for Fae'- Eisen, Lior

'Bruised'- Boteju, Tanya

'Dear Mothman'- Gow, Robin

'Hummingbird'- Lloyd, Natalie

Fixed:

Updated:

Categories and tags on 'Connection Error'- Albert, Annabeth

Categories on 'Back in the Saddle'- Kincaid, Beth

Categories and tags on ‘City of Strife’- Arseneault, Claudie

Categories and tags on ‘City of Betrayal’- Arseneault, Claudie

Categories and tags on ‘Icebreaker’- Graziadei, A. L.

Tags on ‘A Quick & Easy Guide to Sex & Disability’- Andrews, A

Tags on ‘The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability’- Barker, Clare. Murray, Stuart

Tags on ‘A Game of Thrones’- Martin, George R. R.

Tags on ‘A Spindle Splintered’- Harrow, Alix E.

Tags on ‘Beasts of Prey’- Gray, Ayana

Tags on ‘The Bedlam Stacks’- Pulley, Natasha

Tags on ‘Blood Price’- Huff, Tanya

Tags on ‘Borderline’- Baker, Mishell

Tags on ‘Bound to the Monarchs’- Winters, Brooke

Tags on ‘The Broken Kingdoms’- Jemisin, N. K.

Tags on ‘Carry the Ocean’- Cullinan, Heidi

Title and tags on ‘Growing Up Disabled in Australia’- Findlay, Carly

Tags on ‘Cinder’- Meyer, Marissa

Tags on ‘Conventionally Yours’- Albert, Annabeth

Tags on ‘Counterpoint’- Zabo, Anna

Tags on ‘Crooked Kingdom’- Bardugo, Leigh

Tags on ‘Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots’- Sebastian, Cat

Tags on ‘Dead in the Garden’- Donovan, Dahlia

Tags on ‘The Right to Maim’- Puar, Jasbir K.

Tags on ‘Deathless Divide’- Ireland, Justina

Tags on ‘Earth Girl’- Edwards, Janet

Tags on ‘Uncanny Bodies’- Smith, Scott, T., Alaniz, José

Tags on ‘The Extraordinaries’- Klune, T. J.

Tags on ‘The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict’- Stewart, Trenton Lee

Tags on ‘The Faithless’- Clark, C. L.

Tags on ‘We’ve Got This’- Hull, Eliza

Tags on ‘The Outside’- Hoffman, Ada

Tags on 'Iron Widow'- Zhao, Xiran Jay

Added:

"Spotlight Index" button to "Xan West" Author Spotlight entry

"Spotlight Index" button to "Elsa Sjunneson" Author Spotlight entry

"Spotlight Index" button to "James & Lucy Catchpole" Author Spotlight entry

"Spotlight Index" button to "Lillie Lainoff" Author Spotlight entry

"Spotlight Index" button to "Eliza Hull" Author Spotlight entry

"Spotlight Index" button to "J R Moon" Author Spotlight entry

"Spotlight Index" button to "Shayla Lawson" Author Spotlight entry

Aesthetic:

Other:

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Hello!

Apologies for the wait.

I noticed you've already checked out the (admittedly limited) books on the website. I do apologise that there are only two so far. I tend to go by what is submitted, and, at this moment, they are the only books with stuttering characters that have been submitted.

However! I have gone away and tried to find some more in line with what you're looking for. You said you're looking for fictional books with adult characters, not children, and from the notes, you generally avoid "angsty slowburns". You also said Stephen King's It, and his books in general, aren't for you.

WIth all that in mind, I've done my best to put together a list of things you may find useful and/or interesting:

This list of books on Goodreads lists 74 books that feature characters who stutter. You said what genres you didn't want, and after flicking through the list there are some that fall into those categories, but if there are any on the list that do catch your eye and you would like more information on (content warnings, available formats etc.) I'll be happy to look into them for you.

This list from The Stuttering Foundation. It is quite long, and a lot of the books here do seem to be non-fiction. However! There are some fictional books sprinkled in there and the list is divided into five categories: children, adult, professional, Spanish and French.

Not an adult necessarily but rather a fox in a comic; Franky Banky comics follow the titular fox (Franky) on his adventures with his friends, while he navigates his stutter. The comics are written by Daniele Rossi, who grew up with a stutter.

Free Stuttering Books is an online collection of free ebooks relating to stuttering. This list isn't exactly what you're looking for, as I think the books are non-fiction, but if you're ever in market for non-fiction books it could be of interest.

If there are any books that you would like any more information on, just let me know and I'll seek it out for you!

Regarding the stutter being written into the dialogue, I cannot say for certain if that is the case for all the books but it is for the Franky Banky comics. I can try to look into how the stuttering is written in any books that interest you, though!

Happy Browsing!

hey guys, can someone please recommend me a fictional (not historical, not real life story) book/original story where an adult (!) character (preferably the main one) has a stutter and the dialogues are written with that stutter?

TV shows (not too big/longue though) or movies would probably work as well, but for some reason I want some text.

I tried to Google, but I'm not yet inspired by what I found.

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Visited a market yesterday with some friends, and got really excited when I noticed a bunch of the books on the website being sold by this cute little queer indie bookstore.

[ID: Photograph of books and bookmarks displayed on a bookshelf. The books, from left to right, are: Dear Mothman by Robin Gow, The Forge and The Flood by Miles Nelson, Riftmaster by Miles Nelson, Renegade by Miles Nelson, Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White and Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White. /end]

[ID: Photograph of the same books, now stacked on top of each other in reverse order. /end]

The couple who run it were so sweet and probably almost as excited as I was going around and looking at all the books they had. They had more (Cemetery Boys, The No Girlfriend Rule, lots of books by Laura Kate Dale etc.) but unfortunately I don't have the funds and/or ability to carry them all! 😅 [grinning face with water drop emoji]

They also gave me some good recommendations for their favourite disability books to add to the archive, which I really appreciated!

Honestly, I really liked it there and I'm probably going to go back when I have a free day (in the distant future). But I was checking out their website, and you can order books to pick up or deliver (including preordering Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao). I really like that you can search by LGBTQ+ rep on the online store!

I've linked the website again here.

Also! (and because I think it's adorable)

They make and sell tiny little pride rats (and rat hats!) in the colours of the various pride flags, and they were really excited to show me the little rats in the colours of the disability flag!

[ID: Close-up photograph of a small clay rat in the colours of the disability pride flag. The rat is wearing a small red Christmas hat. Behind the rat, a small paper book titled "Pride Rat Affirmations". /end]

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[ID: Gif of a scene from the animated movie Mulan. The character Mushi, a small red dragon, rises from the ground as if rising from a grave. He is surrounded by red and black smoke. White caps at the bottom of the gif read "I liiiiiiiiiveeeee [live]!!!" /end]

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'Hummingbird'- Lloyd, Natalie

Disability Rep: Osteogenesis Imperfecta (MC); Wheelchair User (MC)

Genre: Magical Realism; Realistic Fiction; Fantasy

Age: Middle-Grade

Setting: USA

Additional Rep: N/A

For more information on summaries, content warnings and additional tropes, see here:

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'Dear Mothman'- Gow, Robin

Disability Rep: Autism (MC)

Genre: Poetry; Fantasy; Contemporary

Age: Middle-Grade; Young Adult

Setting: USA

Additional Rep: Transgender MC; Queer MC; Dead Transgender SC; WLW Side Couple

For more information on summaries, content warnings and additional tropes, see here:

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'Bruised'- Boteju, Tanya

Disability Rep: Trauma (MC); Deaf (SC)

Genre: Romance; Contemporary; Sports

Age: Young Adult

Setting: Canada

Additional Rep: Sri-Lankan-Canadian Bisexual Female MC; POC Nonbinary SC x Deaf Asian Queer Female SC; Older Lesbian SC Couple

For more information on summaries, content warnings and additional tropes, see here:

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'7 Days for Fae'- Eisen, Lior

Disability Rep: Ataxia (MC); Autism (MC)

Genre: Realistic

Age: Middle-Grade

Setting: USA- TBC

Additional Rep: Nonbinary Parent of MC

For more information on summaries, content warnings and additional tropes, see here:

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'Make You Mine This Christmas'- Huxley-Jones, Lizzie

Disability Rep: Autism (MC), Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (LI), Cane User (LI)

Genre: Romance; Contemporary; Christmas

Age: Adult

Setting: England

Additional Rep: Bisexual Welsh MC x Lesbian LI; Bisexual Male SC; Non-binary Chinese-British SC

For more information on summaries, content warnings and additional tropes, see here:

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'A Not-So Holiday Paradise'- Mitchell, Gracie Ruth

Disability Rep: Epilepsy (MC)

Genre: Romance; Contemporary; Clean Romance

Age: Adult

Setting: The Virgin Islands

Additional Rep: F/M; Christmas

For more information on summaries, content warnings and additional tropes, see here:

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'The Christmasaurus'- Fletcher, Tom. Devries, Shane

Disability Rep: Wheelchair User

Genre: Fantasy; Childrens; Poetry; Christmas

Age: Childrens

Setting: N/A

Additional Rep: Dinosaurs

For more information on summaries, content warnings and additional tropes, see here:

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Hi everyone

There's been a slight change of plans since my last update that I need to address. Last time, I said I was working on implementing a delayed queue system due to possibly starting a new job in the New Year and did not want either commitment to clash. And while this is still the case, it looks like things are going to have to move much quicker than I expected.

Turns out, I'm starting in the next couple of days instead 🙃[upside down face emoji]

I am going to spend the weekend queueing up as many things and churning out as many entries as I can, but don't be surprised if the archive suddenly goes quiet for a couple of days while I'm adjusting to my new schedule.

The next few weeks are going to be pretty hectic for me, and I appreciate everyone's continuing support and patience!

Thank you for taking the time to read this if you read this far.

Happy Holidays!

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[ID: Two images. The first is a cover for a volume of the manga series I Hear the Sunspot by Yuki Fumino. The second is a still from the live action television adaptation of the manga, showing actors Toranosuke Kobayashi and Motoki Nakazawa. /end]

COMICS / MANGA: Sugihara Kohei (I Hear the Sunspot / Hidamari ga Kikoeru) - Deaf

I Hear the Sunspot (Japanese: ひだまりが聴こえる, Hepburn: Hidamari ga Kikoeru) is a Japanese manga series by Yuki Fumino, serialized in the semi-monthly boys' love manga anthology Canna since December 22, 2013.

College student Taichi Sagawa learns that his lonely classmate, Kohei Sugihara, is deaf, and he enrolls in a part-time job to take notes for him in exchange for food. As the two become more acquainted with each other, they develop a strong friendship that eventually turns into love.

A live-action film adaptation of the first volume was released on June 24, 2017. A separate live-action television drama adaptation began broadcasting on TV Tokyo on July 3, 2024. [wiki]

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Join me as I celebrate and post about different Disabled Characters throughout the month. Tracking #dcotm

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"Acceptance isn’t about making you weak from the battle of fighting your disease; it’s about building a smart and capable foundation from which a relapse can’t knock you down.”

Ilana Jacqueline “Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness: How to Stay Sane and Live One Step Ahead of Your Symptoms”