How important is it to see yourself in a book?

As a disabled reader, I only see myself genuinely represented in a chronic illness memoir. Does it matter if I never see myself in a novel?

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Firstly, in focusing on disability in this edition of my newsletter, I am not emphasising it above other forms of under-representation, which are equal to disability. Still, disability has not been focused upon enough, considering that one in six people in the UK are disabled. Are all these people looking for themselves in …