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February 23, 2017

The Persistence of Little Fish

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   When I wrote about the little fish that quietly eat our kids up while we’re busy watchin...
February 2, 2017

From the bottom of the sea

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Schuyler's world just became much, much larger, and as it turns out, that scares her...
January 25, 2017

This is why.

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  Schuyler was surrounded and engulfed and protected by a sea of women, and she understood,...
January 19, 2017

Exploring Worlds Both Dark and Lovely

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  In taking my own focus inward to her more immediate world and trying to help as best I ca...
January 12, 2017

Denial

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   There are two kinds of deniers. There are the kind that are just goofy, like moon landin...
January 4, 2017

Desensitized

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  I recently read an article that posed a question that honestly hadn't occurred to me ...
December 28, 2016

"At least I think that's so..."

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   I'm not going to try to pretend I'm hopeful, or that I believe the inherent good...
December 21, 2016

To my Heart, at Seventeen

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   You know the truth, which is something we've always tried to give you no matter how ...
December 16, 2016

The Value of Protest

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:    Protest forms special needs parents into people we would not otherwise be, and sometime...
December 1, 2016

The evolution of the dad hat

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   The world of a teenaged girl with a disability is complex, in ways that aren't cute ...
November 23, 2016

Thanksgiving 2016

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Through it all, Schuyler doesn't spend a lot of time reflecting on the hard stuff, c...
November 17, 2016

The next day, and the next

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  But the days roll past, and the Big Scary Thing becomes more and more background as the M...
November 9, 2016

The New Danger of Difference

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  When Schuyler gets up tomorrow and faces her weary and deeply disheartened father, she wi...
November 2, 2016

A Simpler World

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   I hate this election season, like I hate anything that I find difficulty in explaining t...
October 18, 2016

Two Brains

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:  I love Schuyler's brain, which might seem like an odd thing to say, given her own une...
October 5, 2016

Small expeditions

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Years from now, I hope we see these small expeditions as the beginning of Schuyler's...
September 28, 2016

Limits

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   I've written many times about my duty as Schuyler's parent to be an overbelieve...
September 21, 2016

Check your local listings, and hold your breath

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   I feel like there's been a subtle shift in how people with disabilities are perceive...
September 14, 2016

Toll

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Being a special needs parent is an amazing experience, but it runs a deficit. The obstac...
August 30, 2016

The invisible monsters who walk among us

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Today at Support for Special Needs : Excerpt:   Everyone cry out, because such a statement demands outcry. Ann Coulter stands proudly an...