Rosemary Sutcliff  once wrote (quoted in the Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature):

“there’s a great loneliness about having any kind of handicap in a world which in general doesn’t, however much you get to the stage where neither you nor anybody else notices. You tend to create somebody on your side of the barrier who will talk your own language.”

(I have blogged an article she wrote about disability before)

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