Daniel

Because Of You

My Fighter Daniel, You truly are the strongest boy I know. You just turned 5 years old last week, but the amount of surgeries, challenges, and struggles you’ve gone through makes you braver than most people. You were born with a syndrome that affects a lot of your body parts, hence all the procedures you’ve […]

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Thanksgiving

Thank You For Including My Son

Disclaimer: Due to privacy concerns, names have been changed to protect the identity of minors. There’s a little girl in my son Nicholas’s class. I’ll call her “E.” Nicholas and E just met this year in Kindergarten. They like to play outside together. They like to sit by each other in school. They even like […]

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Autism

A Friendship Blossoms

Autism can be hard to understand especially for a toddler. All my son wants is just a relationship with his older brother, who up until a few months ago wanted nothing to do with him. Two boys with completely different personalities: Nicholas who is laid back, keeps to himself, quiet (most of the time), and […]

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