The comic medium plays a significant role in the representation of disability and illness. Most graphic narratives depict the disabled body as deficit, inhuman and different. Perceptions about the disabled body have been influenced by the comic medium and the history surrounding people living with disabilities. Graphic memoirs, however, offer a more autoethnographic view of illness and disability, foregrounding the lived experience of authors and their perspective on illness and disability, while the characters portray scenarios that challenge the modern stereotypical take on illness and disability. This research draws on a similar approach and develops a graphic memoir that focuses on the researcher's experience with a mentally and physically disabled sibling. Taking on an evocative autoethnographic approach, the graphic memoir provides insight into the author’s feelings and experiences. It presents complex relational aspects between a sister and a brother living with a disability, providing insight surrounding family dynamics and illness. Throughout the narrative readers are presented with everyday objects and activities within a disability setting. The normal process of eating, bathing, going to church or going to the beach becomes different as they now see it from the perspective of the family member of a disabled person. This study unpacks the researcher’s produced memoir as both a personal account and as a tool for examining how graphic memoirs can challenge cultural stereotypes, offer new perspectives, experiences, and interpretations of disability and illness. By transforming lived experience into a graphic memoir, this study uses visual storytelling as a form of activism to highlight problematic historical and social issues surrounding disability, while reclaiming disability family life through autoethnographic narration. The project achieves this by combining graphic memoir, personal narrative, and disability studies as a form of resistance against one-dimensional understandings and representations of disability and illness.