If you ever wonder whether we love our children with DS the same or whether our children with DS love us the same, this is for you...
#RipOnly
How about “ONLY Caucasians are more at risk” or "ONLY Red-haired are more at risk”, or “ ONLY Working-class are more at risk” or "ONLY overweight people are more at risk"?
International Women’s Day: How much do you forget about them being a woman when they have a disability?
#IWD has always been a great platform to expose some ginormous elephants in the room. This is one of them. So, let's talk about it.
Bits and Bobs about Down Syndrome
Bits and Bobs about Down syndrome...
Wouldn’t Change A Thing?
I was crushed both by the sheer love I felt for her and the life I pictured for her
Why am I still my adult daughter’s voice???
When your adult child has a learning disability, is running their social media controlling them?
Deaf Awareness Week 2019
@kathleenhumberstone Breaking News: May 9th, 2019 by Denise Humberstone “Sign language made compulsory in all UK educational establishments from nurseries to universities, all government bodies, all work places, all media and entertainment industries starting January 2020 in honour of Deaf Awareness Week!!! The deaf community can’t believe their ears and must have had them burning … Continue reading Deaf Awareness Week 2019
The bodies and faces we should launch 1,000 ships for and fall head over heels in love with!!
They’re done with clicking their heels in vain and shooting themselves in the foot by not standing tall with both feet on the ground!
Dear Gatekeepers of the Media/Fashion/Advertising Worlds…
From your side of the gate, we may appear as underdogs, even as dark horses at times, but what we are is your last epiphany. So please, unlock those gates and let us show you how wrong you’ve been until now and how FLAWSOME WE ARE!
Semantics: the Tip of your Iceberg…
Disabilities don’t make anybody a saint, so there’s no guarantee they’ll like you but I bet you’ll come out totally baffled! And whether or not you like them will stem for a reason that has NOTHING to do with disabilities, which is the whole point!
I don’t want my life back!!
I can tell you with utter clarity that it's been a privilege to care for my daughter. She's been the life I never knew I needed.
To think if it hadn’t been for my arrogance, my ignorance would have nipped this in the bud…literally.
The day my arrogance saved my daughter when my ignorance might have obliterated her...
From couch potato to 28km in just 4 months. How???
I cried before, during and after. I am just so darn proud of this young woman. Hearts should be made of Spandex because, really, mine has run out of space to store all the love I fell for her and my other 2. All she could say on the way back home in the car, and until she fell asleep, was: Can you believe it? I got my own medal!!
