“Book Descriptions: In this searing and seriously funny memoir, Dorothy Ellen Palmer falls down. A Lot. Born with congenital anomalies, then called birth defects, in both feet, she was adopted as a toddler by a traditional 1950s family that had no idea how to handle the interwoven complexities of adoption and disability. From repeated childhood surgeries to an activist awakening at university to decades as a feminist teacher, improv coach and unionist, she spent much of her life denying her disability. But now, in this book written with the timing of a comedian, she’s sharing her journey. Palmer takes on adoption, ableism, ageism and childhood sexual abuse as she reckons with her past and with everyone’s future. In Falling for Myself, she allows herself to fall and get up and fall again, knees and hands bloody, but determined to seek disability justice, to insist we all be heard, seen, included and valued for who we are.” DRIVE
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