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Me in the Mirror by Connie Panzarino
Born
with a rare muscle disease, the author recounts the challenges of
growing up handicapped, her early adulthood and dawning political
activism, her relationship with Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic, her
lesbianism, and her work as a disability rights activist.
(Amazon.com)
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from Access Expressed!
Advice and information from Connie Panzarino.
Part of a web site which contains questions and answers about
disabilities.
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from Disability Net
Writer; activist and artist Connie Panzarino was
born in 1947 with the rare disease Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type
III, formerly called Amytonia Congenita. Throughout a childhood
filled with both pain and joy, she strove to define herself:
"I knew I was different. Now I had a name for the difference,
like being Italian or Jewish. I was an Amytonia. I didn't
understand if that meant that I would never walk, or if all it
meant was lack of muscle tone. I didn't know that most children
with this disease die before they're five years old...
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from Theatre Mirror
Paul Kahn's stage adaptation of Connie
Panzarino's autobiography "The Me in the Mirror" is a
stage rarity: it's the kind of snippet-scened docu-drama most
people would be content to see as a public-service movie. But even
done on a nearly bare stage with black rehearsal clothes on five
actors doing fifty-eight distinct roles, live action brings
immediacy and power and, in Daniel Gidron's swiftly moving
production, all the triumphs, pains, pleasures and hurts of a
torrentially willful life. And the vigor of the playing never
flags...
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by Connie Panzarino
My parents said that as an infant I was an
active, good baby who slept well and delighted all the relatives.
When I was seven months old, they said that I couldn't pull myself
into a sitting position and could not maintain my head and neck
balance the way other children did. I never crawled. I was
different, but no one knew what was "wrong" with me.
Soon after began years of doctors, medicines and expensive
treatments and there was never enough money to pay for them...
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