CHRISTY BROWN
Christy Brown was one of 23 children born to an Irish
Bricklayer. Unfortunately he was a victim of Cerebral
Palsy and at a very early age was declared by doctors to be
mentally defective and that nothing could be done for him.
His mother didn't believe them and said of her son "It is his
body that is shattered and not his mind, I'm sure of it".
Christy's condition meant that he couldn't control his
speech or his movement, except for his left foot. One day
whilst his sister was playing with some chalk and a
blackboard, he picked up a piece of the chalk with his left
foot and made some marks with it. From that point on his
mother taught him the alphabet, a slow and frustrating
process for the young Christy. He started to sign his initials
C.B., then moved on to his name and gradually began to
write. He also found and developed a talent for painting,
again using his left foot and when he was 12 years old won a
Sunday Independent children's painting competition.
As he grew older, his writing improved and he eventually
wrote his autobiography My Left Foot, immortalised in the
film of the same name starring Daniel Day Lewis, four other
novels and a collection of poetry.
(Source - My Left Foot by Christy Brown)
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