One of the most popular essays on raising a disabled child doesn't quite match most parents' reality.
What “Welcome to Holland” Gets Wrong
Category: Down syndrome
Down syndrome is a lifelong genetic disability caused by an extra copy of the 21st chromosome. Fabulousness is a common side effect—just ask my sister.
Interviewing Stella, a Girl with Down Syndrome
What is it like to have Down syndrome? Let's ask my sister.
Down Syndrome: She’s No Mistake
What would it be like, to be a person with Down syndrome and hearing that you are the way that you are because of a mistake? To hear that you are defective? That you exist as the result of an "error"?
