“I like the people in health care. People in health care, they don’t stare at my son like he’s some kind of freak, you know? They see him for who he is.”
She took a deep breath and continued. “It’s different when I’m around other people. Either they make faces because they think he is too big to be in a stroller, or when he starts making his sounds and throwing his body around, they just stand there and stare. I feel like they don’t want either of us around and just wish we would go away.”
[For more of this story, written by Dennis Rosen, MD, go to http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/24/seeing-the-child-not-the-disability/]
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