Gabriela "Gaby" Raquel Brimmer (September 12, 1947 – January 3, 2000)[1] was a Mexican writer and activist for people with disabilities.
[2][3] Gaby was born with cerebral palsy and since childhood learned to act in a world that has difficulty accepting diversity.
In 1979, her Spanish-language autobiography Gaby Brimmer,[4] coauthored by Elena Poniatowska, was published by Editorial Grijalbo in Mexico City.
[5] In 1955, she was enrolled into a rehabilitation center's elementary school where a teacher recognized her talent with words and recommended that she become a writer.
In 1971, she was accepted into the Social and Political Sciences department at the National Autonomous University of Mexico as a Sociology major, but did not graduate.