‘I know my ache is not your pain’ – disabled writers imagine a healthier world
- Written by Andy Jackson, Creative Writing Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
Left to right: Beau Windon, Andy Jackson, Robin M Eames.There are many reasons why I shouldn’t be here. If you’d shown my ten-year-old self my life as it is now, he’d have been stunned, mostly because he half-expected an early death. My father, who had Marfan Syndrome, the genetic condition I have, died when he was in his...





