It was on a cold grey December afternoon, the whole family sat around the kitchen fire. Nearly all day long he lay on his back in the kitchen or in the garden, helpless, lonely and imprisoned in a world of his own, unable to communicate with others, separated from them as though a glass wall stood between his existence and theirs.īut one day Christy's whole life changed and his mother's faith in him rewarded and her secret fears changed into open triumph. He did not show a sign of real intelligence - he was only interested in the toes of his left foot.
The only thing that sometimes showed his mother what he felt was a vague smile. Christy still could neither speak, nor walk or sit. Luckily Christy's mother did not give up - not because of a sense of duty but because of love.Īt the age of five Christy still was as helpless as a baby and there was something like a brick wall between Christy and his brothers and sisters and his mother tried to pull it down brick by brick. His mother did not want to see him as a cripple like the doctors did. Christy was only a little over a year old when he was taken to several doctors and each of them told them that he was a very interesting but hopeless case because he suffered from cerebral palsy. His mother told her husband about her fears and they decided to seek medical advice. His head had the habit of falling back whenever she tried to feed him, at the age of six months he was not able to sit without some pillows around him and at twelve months it was the same. The first who saw that something was wrong with Christy was his mother when he was about four months old. After his birth his mother was sent away to recover for a few weeks and Christy stayed in the hospital.
His birth was a very difficult one and he and his mother had almost died. Christy Brown was born on the 5th of June in 1932 as one of 23 children of a bricklayer's wife.
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