Im going to tell you a story, the story has parts that are very sad, and parts that are triumphant and boring parts. Its the story of my life as a parent of a special needs child. Now if this were a documentary this would be the part where the sad music would start to play, a powerful tool to get you, the audience to have a sorrowful emotional response, designed to make you think this is what the parents of the child are feeling too. But while my life is a rollercoaster of emotions I want you to walk away with one thing, don’t feel sorry for me. Compassion please, empathy if you can, even personal discomfort at not knowing how to act around a disabled family I understand, but give me the gift of honoring my experience by not feeling sorry for me, pity only diminishes the journey not enhances it. And that is what this is, a journey, a spiritual path that has been thrust upon me. So instead, I prefer that you imagine listening to the flower duet from laksme opera, and this would be the opening act..
please don't cue the sad music 