“When my mom and siblings were asleep, I shoveled crackers in my mouth in the bathroom. I ate snack cakes on the kitchen floor. Food didn’t care I was depressed and anxious.”
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“When my mom and siblings were asleep, I shoveled crackers in my mouth in the bathroom. I ate snack cakes on the kitchen floor. Food didn’t care I was depressed and anxious.”
“I sat in the doctor’s office and watched as each person passed me. I wondered who else might be awaiting life-altering news. I vowed no matter where life took me, it would never take me away from love.”
“There was hair on my pillow. I had to unclog the shower after each use. I’d be cooking and just see hair fall to the counter. I took the plunge.”
“’You know, he is very ADHD.’ What I found blew open my world. I saw my son, but more so, I saw myself.”
“Every day I knew I was the ‘kid with the disability.’ I had to learn the hard way it takes one step at a time.”
“I told her, ‘I want the biggest, most obnoxious-looking hearing aid possible.’ I was SO tired of telling people I was deaf.”
“Being needed all the time is simply draining, and a mother never stops being needed.”
“When I born, the doctor said, ‘You’re going to have your hands full with that one.’ Even from a young age, I never felt like a girl. I wondered what was ‘wrong’ with me.”
“I couldn’t work the same or train the same. I wasn’t ‘big Dave’ anymore! I couldn’t even be the same dad to my kids. I felt like I lost my sense of everything.”
“None of us had anyone else to relate to – until now.”