“She sat on the end of the bed and cried.”
‘Goodnight Bubs, I love you.’ She signed ‘I love you’ and he signed it back for the first time.’: Mom shares touching moment between son with nonverbal autism and sibling
‘My birth mom said, ‘I don’t know who your father is. I was dating a man while I had an affair with an attorney and a fling with a friend back then.’: Adoptee details search for birth father
“He looked me dead in the eye and coldly asked, ‘What do you want from me?’ I replied, ‘I just want you to take a DNA test so I can have some closure and know where I came from.’ When the results came back my jaw about hit the floor.”
‘It’s not just a bad headache or a really bad hangover. It is a hell you cannot escape.’: Young woman details life with chronic migraines, vows ‘I am not giving up’
“It’s lying in bed for days at a time in complete darkness. You can’t concentrate or think because the pain is so bad. You can’t look at even a sliver of light without piercing pain. You can hardly form words or speak. Sometimes, you feel like you are actually going to pass out.”
‘Your baby girl isn’t growing properly.’ My daughter doesn’t need changing. This world does.’: Mom to daughter with dwarfism advocates for inclusion
“Without much explanation, the doctor headed back to her office to look over the measurements, leaving me to delve into Google. Without enough info, full of fear and armed with nothing but shock and anxiety, I stumbled upon scary statistics, a lack of information and words that seemed jumbled on the page.”
‘I heard the word ‘defect’ among whispers. Tears flowed, but her worth remained unchanged.’: Mom shares daughter’s journey with Down Syndrome, heart diagnoses
“I had my 20-week anatomy scan. This is always my favorite appointment, where the sonographer details every portion of the growing baby, and I go home to put a perfect sonogram photo on the fridge. This appointment was different.”
‘She grabbed the doll in the wheelchair and her Barbie and said, ‘She has walkers too!’: Special needs mom shares daughter’s sweet inclusive moment, ‘I must be doing something right’
“To her, disability is normal. It’s not new, or scary. It’s not unapproachable. In her little pretend play mind, disability is fully included in every scenario. If only everyone in the world had Gabby’s lens.”
‘Woohoo!’: Adorable brother jumps for joy when little sister sinks first basketball shot
“Her first shot on eight feet ever! For her, a trick shot!”
‘Everyone said he was loyal, protective, hilarious, selfless, and humble. Not one person spoke of his addiction. That’s not who he was.’: Sister shares lessons learned after brother’s passing
“His death has taught me so much about how to live. Not just how to live, but how to love.”
‘You’re making me cry at work!’: Starbucks barista learns sister is cancer-free in sweetest way
“Oh my god really? Are you serious? Really?!”
‘I know it can feel unfair. But through it all, you’ve never complained or compared.’: Mom’s sweet acknowledgment of sister’s patience for sibling with special needs
“I know it might feel like most of my time, thoughts, and efforts are spent on your brother, but please know that I see you.”