"But I had this disability — I couldn't draw!" he says.
So for me this disability was an advantage".
"However, he does have this disability that doesn't always appear like a disability.
I suspect he felt that this disability, at least, could remain private.
As far as the book is concerned, this disability functions as a device to give him "character" and to evoke pity in the reader.
To address this, disability charity Contact A Family is launching a three-year campaign, Pounds for Parents, to help parents to claim what is theirs.
Without this disability, he would not have been exempt from the draft, a spectre hovering over all the Archies as they come of age in the nineteen-sixties.
Conventionally, the adult primate's response to this disability is to deploy the unaffected, fully-functioning left side (arm, hand, fingers etc).
In an ideal world, he would have been given help with this disability, particularly when he was a child; but this did not happen.
He suggests that "having this disability, which was really quite shaming, forced me to be more adventurous and daring than I ordinarily would have been.
This disability, coupled with poor hearing, probably inherited, left him ill-equipped for studying birds or frogs, which he couldn't hear or see well.
