77: To Those Who Cannot Say, “I Wouldn’t Have Them Any Other Way.”
I am definitely one of them. Hearing other parents of children with disabilities say adages like this one has always made me squirm inside because it’s simply untrue to me. I would have Kimball another way—free from pain and suffering. But I’ve realized a trend—the parents saying this phrase were almost always parents to children with disabilities that do not cause pain or suffering in and of themselves. And are certainly not life-shortening.
In this solo episode, I divide out disabilities and medical issues into those two categories—ones that cause suffering and the ones that do not. And I…
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