Last week, someone asked me if I was David’s grandfather. This in itself isn’t a bad thing. In the past when people have questioned David’s parentage, I have simply said that he is adopted. Which is true. What is wrong with the idea that a white person would have an African-American son? Or even the…
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Encouragement
What is it like to live in fear? Having never lived in a war zone, or been active in a war zone, I can’t say that our experience compares to that. What I can say is this. Living day to day on edge constantly because you don’t know from one minute to the next what…
Generalizations, how they don’t help
We have this saying in the Autism community. “If you have seen a child with Autism, you have seen A child with Autism.” You have seen one child. Why one? Because no two kids are exactly alike, including twins. So why would it be any different for an adopted child? David is adopted. David has,…