![]() ![]() He began to be able to express himself more fully when he was taught to speak more clearly by therapist Dr. Without the use of his hands, he used his left foot to express himself by painting, the paint brush grasped between his big and second toe. Because of his inability to speak when he was a child, he was largely seen as mentally slow, he who surprised everyone by demonstrating his mental acuity in absorbing everything that was happening around him. His mother in particular did whatever she could to make sure Christy was loved and supported. He grew up in a working class family, one of thirteen siblings surviving infancy, with the siblings needing to share rooms with four or five to a bed. The life of Dublin born and bred Christy Brown (1932-1981) is presented, he who overcame the odds, afflicted with muscle debilitating cerebral palsy (CP) since birth which required around the clock care when he was a child, to become a successful painter and author. ![]()
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