Tag: social challenges for parents of individuals with disabilities
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On Ability, Access, and Representation
Sometimes talking to anyone can be a tricky thing. I feel like an apology just as readily needs to grace my lips as anything else I could possibly say, because often when I have personally given offense, it was most certainly not intentional. What one person in a group finds offensive another does not, and…
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August Gratitude & Some Reading
To Ash If I were asked to give a naked truth, I would have said that you were never anyone I expected to find reaching out to me in times of needed repair, extending grace and support. We lived in different friendship circles, even when we used to go to the same church. Yet two…
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A Fine Line
A couple of weeks ago, Jessi and I were talking as I was firing up the Frankenkindle. She very graciously sits with Tony a few minutes after each session while he watches a video on this near ancient relic so that I can use the bathroom before starting our drive home. Currently Tony is only…
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Becoming the Socially Undead
This tale involves things that can haunt a person without being supernatural. Of course, I would never want to scare another parent whose feet are freshly placed upon the path of parenting a kiddo with significant disabilities. But I cannot change that I have been witness to an emotional crime scene, a missing person’s report,…