Disabled. People say 16,000 words a day But one word no one wants to say: disabled. Cripped Crip Gimp Gump Differently- Abled Special Stumpy Slow Retard Crazy Sick Lame Stricken Sufferer Afflicted Low functioning High functioning Pathetic Brave Needy Helpless Hopeless Must be saved Shouldn’t be doing that Why aren’t they doing more? Lazy Lonely […]
Dear Husband
You know those online sharables? The little poems or sayings you see on social media and how they get you all up in your feels but then you smile and go about your day. Well, when you have a child with a disability there is a whole new level of feels to get up into […]
Welcome to Holland
There’s nothing I hate more than the patronizing “God gives special children to special moms” trope. But this is a new one I saw in my daughter’s disability group today: the greater the storm the brighter the rainbow. It was positioned at the end of an article to moms of kids who are newly diagnosed, […]