She could only move her left leg and left arm. These also became her tools to communicate with the world.
The memory of the author Gabriella Brimmer honor Google with her current one Doodle. Mexican-Jewish author and disability rights activist.
As a person with brain paralysis she captured in her books in an authentic way the reality for people with disabilities.
He was born in Mexico City in 1947 to parents who fled Nazi Austria. Soon after, her parents learned she had severe cerebral palsy, a muscle disorder that can affect a person’s movement, muscle tone and posture. Brimer learned to communicate through written words and poetry, as she did not speak.
She could only move her left leg and left arm. These also became her tools to communicate with the world.
As depicted in the Doodle, she wrote using a typewriter operated with the big toe on her left foot.
Brimer collaborated with Mexican novelists and journalists to write three bestselling books that accurately portrayed her life.
She also worked with producers to remake her autobiography in the film Gaby, a True Story (1987), which earned Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations.
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