Christy Brown is born into a poor, working-class Irish family with cerebral palsy, and the tale of her life is portrayed in flashbacks. The story is based on real events. He is misdiagnosed with an intellectual handicap for the first ten years of his life since the only movement he can control is in his left foot, and he can only speak in sounds that are described as guttural.
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Christy Brown is born into a poor, working-class Irish family with cerebral palsy, and the tale of her life is portrayed in flashbacks. The story is based on real events. He is misdiagnosed with an intellectual handicap for the first ten years of his life since the only movement he can control is in his left foot, and he can only speak in sounds that are described as guttural.
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