Ben Mattlin: 2 books
Miracle Boy Grows Up
How the Disability Rights Revolution Saved My Sanity
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
An NPR commentator’s memoir of surviving, and thriving, against all odds with spinal muscular atrophy.
Ben Mattlin lives a normal, independent life. Why is that interesting? Because Mattlin was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a congenital muscle weakness from which he was expected to die...
In Sickness and in Health
Love, Disability, and a Quest to Understand the Perils and Pleasures of Interabled Romance
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
A frank, humorous exploration of interabled dating, love, and marriage
Ben Mattlin’s wife, ML, recalls falling in love with his confidence and sheer determination. On one of their earliest dates, he persuaded her to ride on his lap in his wheelchair on their way home from an Elvis Costello...