Go the Way Your Blood Beats

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Overall this is a book written with a deep understanding of what it is to be human and to deal with limitations (especially other peoples) with grace. He talks about internalising this toxic, ableist narrative, and the rejection he faced for being both disabled and gay.

Most heartbreaking was the isolation that was painfully familiar — too queer for the disabled community, too disabled for the queer community, left belonging to neither. At his sixth form college for disabled students, he's told he will be expelled if the rumours are true, if he's gay.The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the fifth volume of the Heartstopper series.

Educational systems were stacked against him, either segregated in “special” schools or poorly served by a mainstream that refused to accommodate him, with people eventually viewing his experience as a failed experiment at integration. Growing up in south-east London in the 1980s, Emmett is spat at on the street and prayed over at church.It was a difficult realisation – but what made it harder to accept was the prevailing logic of the 1980s, that there was something “wrong” with disabled people.