I Found Love

Does having a disability mean you're unloveable?

After forty-seven years living with his mother, Steven, a man with severe Cerebral palsy, creates a new life for himself. He falls in love with a stripper but searches for a girlfriend, wanting love. Steven lives in a group home being told by staff, “No one cares about you.” He meets new friends, who show him he is loved. I Found Love portrays a man who becomes independent and doesn’t let his disability define his abilities.

Review:

"Nonfiction writer and novelist Steve Salmon’s frank memoir about figuring out independent life is often humorous, filled with angst and frustration, and yet hopeful. Steve could be anyman, but he happens to have severe cerebral palsy. “My mother’s death in 2015 forced me to leave my home,” Steve writes candidly. “In one day, due to her death, I was thrust into the company of strangers. I…cannot live alone due to my disability.”

After being in the care of a loving, if cautious, parent, all of his life, Steve learns that independence has both up and downsides. . .What bugs him, Steve writes, is not necessarily being dependent, but how the paid staff at his group home make him feel “like I’m a burden. My mother never did that."