ABSTRACT
This chapter moves to the area of the narrative presentation of cognitive disability both in its fictional dimension, with Jon McGregor’s Lean Fall Stand (2021), and its non-fictional facet, with Wendy Mitchell’s Somebody I Used to Know (2018), the autobiography of a woman living (and writing) with early-onset dementia. As in the previous chapters—but perhaps more specifically in this one—attention is seen in relation with vulnerability, as both texts consider the workings of incapacitated brains and the way in which disability leads to capacity building, resilience and possibly empowerment. From this point of view, the ethics of care in their relation to attention, one of the threads of this study, are more prominent in this concluding chapter.
