Life's Biggest Punishment
If you look perfectly normal, but are diagnosed at not 100%. you do not get the compassion you deserve from family and friends and are shunned More
- Category: Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs
- Published: Feb. 18, 2013
- Words: 17,820
- Language: Commonwealth English
- ISBN: 9780620556477
Life's Biggest Punishment is a true story of how a botched circumcision ultimately led a young man to take his own life. It is a must-read for all parents.
Gary looks perfectly normal. Except he is living with a crippling disability: BORDERLINE Cerebral Palsy. Being diagnosed at not 100% disabled means that he does not receive the compassion and support that every disabled child deserves. Instead, Gary is shunned by his family and friends.
Even his own father a respectable, kind and honest man, is pitted against his own child, even though he is advised time and again of the child's disabilities. The events that follow Gary's isolating and misunderstood youth are almost too horrific to contemplate.
Share in the experience of a mother who never gave up searching for the truth about her son's circumcision and disability, and of how she made meaning of life after his suicide.
IF THIS MEMOIR CAN HELP ANYONE NOT GO THROUGH THE DIFFICULTIES OR PUNISHMENT THAT I HAVE GONE THROUGH, IT WILL BE WORTHWHILE TO HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ASSIST YOU.
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Reviews of Life's Biggest Punishment by Myriam Donin
My crazy aunt is a good writer, but belongs in a loony bin. My late mother ( Miriams sister) looked after Gary extremely well. Gary was not shunned by myself and my friends. We understood his condition and did our best to make him feel at home, when he visited us. It is quite interesting to maybe find the cause of Gary's issues. It is easy to criticise afterwards , and everyone could have done more, but this book is not a true reflection of Gary's life, which ended tragically. Maybe there was a cure. Miriam did not really know what Gary was up to. She was in Johannesburg and Gary was in Durban. He was happy as he had a nice comfortable place to stay on the beachfront and a retired lifestyle. I do not really know how to rate this book to be honest. I thank all those people who invited Gary over and went to visit him. MHDSRIP. Many of his family and friends still have a place in their heart for him, including myself.