SSI was created in aim to help the disabled and elderly, yet in our personal experience, we have found this program to limit individuals and their families, stripping them of basic liberties and autonomy.
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SSI was created in aim to help the disabled and elderly, yet in our personal experience, we have found this program to limit individuals and their families, stripping them of basic liberties and autonomy.
To extend empathy is not a courtesy, it is being human.
I feel obligated, for the sake of truth and honesty, to address several of the claims being falsely made on our behalf.
So, for the individuals who are up in arms over my lack of “encapsulating the dark side of Down syndrome”, I here offer you just that.
A new idea, a truth of worth, a proclamation etched into my skin.
Blessed yet again, with a realization of how powerful, simple and instant love can be.
Concern has oozed from the faces of good, kind, yet mistaken people.
Doctor appointments, physical therapies and early interventions simply aren’t going away. I can try powering through with an attitude of annoyance, or develope a alternate system. I need to master making it to and through appointments, with all the littles.
’It is not an innate capacity to be a parent of a child with Down syndrome...’
