Oliver Sacks

the book cover for The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, featuring a yellow background and an illustration of a nice hat

Oliver Sacks and the Narratives of Disability

Oliver Sacks recognized that stories have a closer connection to the full complexity of the human condition than science. Nine years after the birth of my daughter, however, I realized that most existing narratives tell us more about cultural misconceptions of Down syndrome than providing a full, complex picture of human experience.