AND HER ADVOCACY WORK INCLUDING
MEMOIR IN BOOK
“FIRSTS: COMING OF AGE STORIES BY
PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES”
By KAREN
UTHE-SEMANCIK AVON LAKE — It’s been about 40 years since former Avon Lake
resident Heidi Johnson-Wright was interviewed by this newspaper.
The former
“poster child” for Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis comes full circle, taking a
step back in time to share a unique coming-of-age story for a new book.
The book,
“Firsts: Coming of Age Stories by People with Disabilities,” asked some of
today’s best-known writers with disabilities to recount a personal first.
These reflections
range from body transformations to societal setbacks, love affairs to family
trauma, all with the goal of dispelling myths about those with disabilities.
Johnson-Wright
was one of 11 writers asked to contribute to Belo Miguel Cipriani’s third book.
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