The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. The background is bright orange. In the centre, a realistic depiction of a human brain, in a dark orange hue. There are six thin, black lines branching off the brain, towards different words.
Directly above the brain, text reads:
The title “It’s Just Nerves” in large, black capitals. Each word is on a separate line, and attached to a black line.
Directly below “Nerves”, the subtitle reads “Notes on a Disability” in smaller white capitals.
At the bottom of the cover, below the brain, the author’s name “Kelly Davio” in large black capitals. One black line reaches from the brain to “Kelly”. Two black lines reach from the brain to “Davio”. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Medical Content
• TBD

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Summary:

“When the body attacks itself, the crisis is not just of bones and blood, but of beauty and boundaries. ‘Strange men have had their hands on me for days,’ Kelly Davio observes during a plasma treatment. Her skillful portrait of myasthenia gravis does not exist in a vacuum. It’s Just Nerves is in keen dialogue with the world around us—critiquing modern health care, pub seating etiquette, alarming election outcomes, smarmy meditation culture, and caricatures of illness in ads and on screen

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Notes:

Here is a Brevity review on It’s Just Nerves.

There is no audiobook, but there is an ebook.

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Archive Comments:

There’s one essay in this about the NHS and the author’s experience with it as an American that’s caught my attention.

I didn’t know what Myasthenia Gravis was before this book. If you want to know more about it, here are some links:

• NHS
• Wikipedia
• Mayoclinic
• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

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