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I read this in literally one day! As a mom of a girl who’s about to turn twelve and who also has CP, this spoke right to my core. Absolutely love the development of both Aim and Matthew, so charming. I know many people with many types of disabilities and this really captured the different sides of acceptance. The truest form must come from the self first, by finding our own voices and plowing through our greatest and even smallest fears and failures. Along the way the acceptance from others, no matter how genuine or purchased, is critical to our foundation.

I had conversations with my husband as I read this and looked at the way we overtly support our daughter with CP, working hard to build up her self esteem and her friendships—although we hadn’t yet thought of paying for peer aides, lining up bday parties is tough—and the way we take for granted our older daughter and her abilities. While she is bodily-capable, smart, athletic and beautiful, she’s also 15, doesn’t have a true BEST friend and has a fairly unstable self esteem where she is constantly worried about what everyone thinks of her. The CP kiddo is full of balls and lights up a room just by walking into it. The Typical kiddo is shy and covers with self-deprecating humor—even though she too lights up a room with her lovely personality. Both are lovable people, not without challenges but truly good souls that anyone would enjoy getting to know if only they took the time to.

This book gives such a beautiful look into two people (and some of the secondary characters too) who are dealing with their own challenges. It’s messy and ugly and full of shame sometimes. But the bottom line is that we all are working through our shit and it makes this life a hell of a lot more enjoyable if we let down our walls and show each other we’re only human just enough to go through it together not alone.


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Say What You Will Cammie McGovern Books Reviews

I picked up this book mainly due to the description. Finally, there was a book that spoke about disabled people as sexual beings! Way too often, most modern romance books talk about disabled people like some kind of bravery piece instead of as an actual person. I sincerely hoped that this book would be a step in the right direction. Sadly I was wrong
- My spoiler free review the first two thirds of this book are awesome. Ami and Matt's relationship feels natural. If you stop before ami goes to college, you would have a four or five star book imo, but YMMV-
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Ami's pregnancy by sanjay is what RUINS this book for me. If sanjay and matt were both considered possible partners by ami this wouldn't be so bad. The fact is, sanjay does not seem to even be on ami's radar til approx one second before the scene ends as it were. I have no problem with ami having a ONS; how realistic it is to have sanjay be able to sneak champagne and have sex with ami all under her overprotective parents noses is a different matter. Then we have to deal with ami's pregnancy.
As I said in the title above, I am a college student with relatively mild CP. I also have a long term able bodied boyfriend of almost 4 years. All the parts before ami finds out she is pregnant really resonated with me. As a kid, I read young adult fiction knowing there were almost no books that dealt with people like me in adult relationships. This book got so close to that goal for me. The fact is, the author wanted her cake and to eat it too. Instead of writing a slightly explicit scene in ami and Matt's story, she basically pulled Matt out of the story and inserted him back in so he could be the father and continue their very chaste relationship. There is a problem with disabled people, especially non verbal ones, being seen in fiction as forever chaste; this book sidesteps the issue while somehow still paying lip service to it. Also ami mom is a narcissist plain and simple
tl;dr although it has good parts, the horrible third act makes this book muddled
Teenage girl just wants to fit in. So where's the story in that? It's a story when she has a disability and needs an aide throughout the day to help with fun things like getting around the school, making sure the communication device is charged and accessible, help with going to the restroom...It's a story when Amy decides that she needs to learn how to have friends, and the adult aides just aren't cutting it. Unlike other stories that "feature" a person with a disability, Cammie McGovern creates the most genuine characterization I've come across. Amy is smart, funny, has cerebral palsy, cannot speak (but has a speech generating device kudos to Ms. McGovern for getting that right!) has trouble eating solid food without being messy, uses a walker, and is largely ignored by her peers. She decides that peer helpers (rather than adult aides) will help her learn how to socialize (even if it means paid friendship). And that, gentle reader, is where the true story begins. This book is written for the YA audience, and is extremely well written. All of the characters "ring true". And as someone who is decades past the YA target audience, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. My career has focused on people with disabilities for more years than I care to admit this book gets it right, but the disabilities aren't glamorized or "challenges to overcome", or ennobling, or pitiful, or necessarily inspiring. Amy happens to have CP. And she's a teenager. It's obviously a big part of her life, and Ms. McGovern doesn't flinch in describing the "little things" that happen. Every. Single. Day. And the toll those "little things" can have on a person like Amy. Read read read this book! Then pass it on!
I read this in literally one day! As a mom of a girl who’s about to turn twelve and who also has CP, this spoke right to my core. Absolutely love the development of both Aim and Matthew, so charming. I know many people with many types of disabilities and this really captured the different sides of acceptance. The truest form must come from the self first, by finding our own voices and plowing through our greatest and even smallest fears and failures. Along the way the acceptance from others, no matter how genuine or purchased, is critical to our foundation.

I had conversations with my husband as I read this and looked at the way we overtly support our daughter with CP, working hard to build up her self esteem and her friendships—although we hadn’t yet thought of paying for peer aides, lining up bday parties is tough—and the way we take for granted our older daughter and her abilities. While she is bodily-capable, smart, athletic and beautiful, she’s also 15, doesn’t have a true BEST friend and has a fairly unstable self esteem where she is constantly worried about what everyone thinks of her. The CP kiddo is full of balls and lights up a room just by walking into it. The Typical kiddo is shy and covers with self-deprecating humor—even though she too lights up a room with her lovely personality. Both are lovable people, not without challenges but truly good souls that anyone would enjoy getting to know if only they took the time to.

This book gives such a beautiful look into two people (and some of the secondary characters too) who are dealing with their own challenges. It’s messy and ugly and full of shame sometimes. But the bottom line is that we all are working through our shit and it makes this life a hell of a lot more enjoyable if we let down our walls and show each other we’re only human just enough to go through it together not alone.