what if she couldn't do any of these things? Then what? Would I be nostalgic of those road blocks, warnings and dead ends? I mean, really, then what?
Author: troynize
All things DS, Autism, etc.... Was somehow a guest speaker at the United Nations, Geneva. Long-distance walker. French married to Brit. Lived in the USA, Scotland, Canada, Cyprus, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE, India and China. Currently in the UK.
The epitome of hypocrisy: wake up and smell our coffee…
You tell us, because as my daughter is busy walking through the gates of adulthood and getting a bit more savvy, she is starting to feel like a survivor amongst a world who wish the segment of population she belongs to extinct and yet that same world seems to welcome her with open arms…
I didn’t manage to self-isolate from my daughter with DS…
By day 3, she grabbed me from behind as I was snail-walking back into my bed and burst into tears. I followed suit and there was no going back. I would go in and out of sleep and wake up with her next to me massaging my feet or caressing my head…
Down Syndrome & Mother’s Day
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.
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...
