Brian Trapp is the director of Disability Studies at the University of Oregon. He is the author of the novel "Range of Motion" and essays found in Longreads, Kenyon Review, Southern Review, and Brevity.
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Sibling of kid with disabilities never felt like a 'glass child'
Brian Trapp grew up with a twin brother who had severe cerebral palsy and intellectual disabilities. But he never felt like a "glass child."
My twin brother was disabled, but I don't consider myself a 'glass child'
"Sometimes I had to be my brother’s arms, legs, eyes and voice," writes Brian Trapp. "It often didn’t feel like a burden, more like an alternative way of moving through...