Author: James Guttman

Father of two children - one non-verbal, one non-stop verbal.

Her Brother, Not Her Burden

My daughter, as the child without special needs, shouldn’t feel she has take care of him like it was her job.

Everything I do now is so that one day, he can do it on his own.

Others may cut your down, but that doesn’t mean you can’t put yourself back together and grow. I did.

I remember being excited about my new Freazy Freakies. What type of frozen tundra did I live in?

What hurt the most was that I had accepted them.

The words rocked me to my core, right there in the middle of the home section of Target.

We have a lot less of these interactions as time goes on, but they still happen.

I’ve never had a relationship as special as the unique ones I have with each of them.

It’s a path I never expected to travel, but am glad I had the courage to walk it.

Being Dad is the greatest, scariest, happiest, lifetime of dread I could have ever signed up for.