Brian Trapp grew up with his twin brother Danny, who had a disability. Growing up, Danny would remind Brian that he was six minutes older. “He never let me forget it,” Trapp says. Every birthday, Danny liked to count to 10:04, and when 10:10 came, Trapp would finally get to say that he was the same age as his brother.

“I think a lot of stories about disability may be tragic, sentimental, but this is a comedy,” says Trapp, the author of the Range of Motion .

Range of Motion is fiction, although Trapp set up the characters similar to his own family. Trapp says that Sal, the twin brother in the book, and Trapp’s own brother, Danny, communicate the same way, both saying “ehh” for yes and “ehh ehh” for no. They also find creative ways to express themselves, such as through gestures, tone a

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