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In September 1955, six-year-old Draw O'Brien migrated his legs and arms going back time. He came out of a coma to find himself enclosed from the neck down within an iron lung, the device in which he would live for much of the others of his life. For the very first time in audio tracks, How I Became a Real human Being is O'Brien's bank account of his battles to lead an unbiased life despite a lifelong disability. In 1955 he contracted polio and became permanently paralyzed from the neck down. O'Brien identifies growing up without the utilization of his limbs, his adolescence fighting physical treatment and battling the bureaucracy of hospitals and companies, and his adult life as an unbiased student and copy writer. Despite his physical restrictions, O'Brien crafts a narrative that is as rich and vibrant as the life span he led.
