I truly hope that that individual, is in a tiny minority, and that most of the world now possesses the emotional intelligence to understand that difference makes us neither less, or more than anyone else. At least, that’s what the media would have you believe lately – but this statement couldn’t be further from the truth. While doctors told Emmett, then 11, that he would never walk unaided, tabloids sensationalised his story. I cried, I laughed and I ached my way through it, as a queer disabled person, the authors accounts of his life struck me deep and I couldn't put it down.

There's an immediacy to the prose that sweeps you up in his story, and makes Go the Way Your Blood Beats a really engaging, emotive read.The story in the papers was one of ‘cures’, but while the surgery was a success, it wasn’t the ‘miracle’ of the tabloid headlines. ich bin einfach sehr dankbar, dass ich sein Memoir lesen durfte und das er seine Geschichte mit uns geteilt hat. There was no choice but to keep walking,” he concludes, reminding the reader that change is only evident when it affects us all. I listened in one sitting and having been judged throughout my own life by my physical self in cruel, ignorant ways, I shared so many emotions while also learning the true struggles of a person with CP.

This week Aidy looks at those members of our community living with tourettes and reflects on his own experiences the condition. Although I have not had such prejudice directed at me, my sister, who also has cerebral palsy, did and has had to deal with it all her life. I tired to read this story four times and every time I got a little farther in my heart kept breaking for Emmett, the stuff he was put through just for being born. Taking a month away from instagram felt impossible, but as I quickly learned, a lot of good came out of stepping back from social media. Supposedly life-changing surgery on his legs in America failed to change his life, and in this vivid, affecting memoir he faces with clear-eyed intensity what it is to live the only life you have, even when it falls short of expectations.

Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. We are committed to adapting Emmett’s story into a TV film which will help bring his voice together with those other underrepresented groups, into the mainstream.

Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. It was that enforced invisibility that made Emmett want to share his story in his own words – to reclaim his own narrative years after tabloids cast their own agenda onto his narrative. Looking back at it in midlife I can see how much I’d internalised that ableism and the prejudices that I was experiencing in wider society. The more we can amplify positive stories and the more we can amplify diverse narratives – I think that’s all to the good.I was earmarked immediately as something that was dangerously different in that environment and that was really difficult. It's 1st January, which means you're probably being bombarded with lots of 'new year, new you' messaging and potentially feeling as though there's something about yourself you need to change or improve upon. For younger bookworms – and nostalgic older ones too – there’s the Slightly Foxed Cubs series, in which we’ve reissued a number of classic nature and historical novels. For him, as so often for people discovering their sexuality (me included), the first words you hear connected to it are insults from peers.