There is often a stepping out into discomfort, in order to stand up for your child’s needs.
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There is often a stepping out into discomfort, in order to stand up for your child’s needs.
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.
Post trauma has surfaced in ways unanticipated…
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 friend mentioned reading a negative comment on one of our Instagram posts, but I hadn’t seen it until just a few days ago. Take a look for yourself if you’d like:
A new idea, a truth of worth, a proclamation etched into my skin.
Concern has oozed from the faces of good, kind, yet mistaken people.
’It is not an innate capacity to be a parent of a child with Down syndrome...’
