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Fifteen Days Post FASD Camp

So fifteen days ago David had the opportunity to attend FASD Camp.  Summer camp. The day I dropped him off, I snapped a selfie of the two of us. Minutes after snapping this photo, he was off meeting new friends with the same disability that he has. The Disability Yes. My son has a disability.  You can’t tell it by looking at him.  That disability is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).  It is not the only one he has, but it is the focus of this post. We learned last winter of this camp called fasdcamp.  It is just for kids with FASD. Thus began the process of applying for camp which began before he came home from care in January. In mid-April, we learned that he had been accepted. This was after a rather lengthy telephone conversation with the camp medical director about David’s condition.  See, they want to

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