Note: This column describes the author’s own experiences with Evrysdi (risdiplam). Not everyone will have the same response to…
Sherry Toh
Sherry “Elisa” Toh (she/they) is a journalist who lives in sunny Singapore. Her diagnosis of SMA type II was in 1999 at 13 months old. Kyphoscoliosis and chronic neuropathy later developed as complications. As a hopeless romantic, her loves include fairy tales, tea, and gaming — the last being the primary focus of her work. She has bylines in PCGamesN, NME, and more. In 2023, her essay “Virtual Progress: A Disabled Journalist’s Thoughts on the Video Games Industry” was published in Singapore’s first printed disability studies anthology, “Not Without Us: Perspective on Disabilities and Inclusion in Singapore.” She writes in hopes of offering community and catharsis. Find her @sherlisass on social media.
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Articles by Sherry Toh
Last in a series. Read parts one and two. I bought shoes I wasn’t sure I’d wear. That…
Second in a series. Read part one. My mum likes to say that my home-care nurse is like a…
First in a series. “All right, I have to go. Bye, Sherry,” my then-new pain specialist said. “I hope I…
I’ll confess: When I wished for a spinal fusion in my teens, it was for cosmetic reasons. This was…
I’ve never understood why some people are weird about wheelchairs. Why the pity? Why think needing to use one is…
“Let me go, Mum,” I begged. It was Day 2 of a harrowing hospital stay. My chest had been hurting…
My introduction to a branching dialogue system in a role-playing game happened in 2019, the first time I played…
“You and our baby brother should count yourselves lucky,” I told my brother Gabriel after my first appointment with…
If you had a chance to fictionalize your life in a children’s book, how would you do it? Would you…