Living with Cerebral Palsy from birth…. Christine Komoroski-McCohnell paints a vivid picture of her life from her earliest days to the present. She is adjunct professor of Disability Studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey, drives her own van, chairs conferences, cooks dinner for her husband, presents papers to peers in the disabled and abled communities alike. Sounds like a typical life, but McCohnell is anything but standard. Gifted with intelligence and unparalleled determination to achieve her dreams and goals, she takes the reader on her journey from growing realization of her uniqueness to school, through adolescence and first love, to college, grad school, and into the fully realized life of a woman who overcomes oppression and limitation. This triumphant, captivating story will inspire everyone.