Location: South Africa
Member Since:
Feb. 18, 2013
Myriam Donin
Biography
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.
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.
Books
Life's Biggest Punishment
by Myriam Donin
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 17,820.
Language:
Commonwealth English.
Published: February 18, 2013.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs
If you are noticeably disabled you are given the compassion you deserve.
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