Recounts the author's childhood struggle to learn to read, write, paint and finally type, with the toe of his left foot.[...]
Christy Brown was severely disabled with cerebral palsy, unable to use any part of his body other than his left foot. Doctors said he was a 'mental defective' and that he would never be able to lead any kind of normal life; Christy proved them wrong. His mother taught him to write using chalk on the[...]