Built Different: A Memoir of Difference, Survival & Becoming

She heard it at thirteen and kept walking. She opened the door. Let the student in. Walked back to her seat. And spent the next thirty years learning how to stop hiding.

Built Different is the story of growing up in a body the world wasn't ready for — and finding the courage to love it anyway.

With honesty and heart, Arzoo Pervaiz writes about living with a neuromuscular disorder, surviving years of bullying, navigating the quiet weight of family expectations, and the long, messy, beautiful j...