Tag: parents

For Friends Who Don’t Have Special Needs Children

I don’t keep a running tally on who has it better or worse between us. That’s not how friendships work.

Every diagnosis doesn’t require grief-stricken language.

Believing your kids can do anything is easy. Believing in your own ability to show them how to do those things is hard.

The responsibility I feel has more to do with me than it does with him.

In my day, we didn’t have internet. We had prank phone calls and they were awesome.

Simply put, he’s mine and I’ll watch over him forever.

I had no idea where this concept came from. For the record, I have never stolen gas.

Here’s the twist. I don’t wonder that.

Glitter, rainbows, and the pure, unadulterated chaos of a Scandinavian Death Metal mosh pit.

I guess I’m supposed to be wiser now. After all, I’m 40.