“You’re teaching them if their body doesn’t look or function like most do, then it’s BAD.”
‘STOP using ‘bad’ to describe a person’s body part.’: Limb difference advocate urges ‘teach people to love their bodies’
‘What other first-time mom has to go through this?’ This was going to be messy.’: Divorcee marries widower, adopts stepdaughter, ‘It was worth every hurdle’
“Now, it wasn’t just about him and me. It was about her, a little girl with a huge void in her life. I kept thinking, if this was my little girl, what would I want for her?”
‘I heard loud honking and a gruff, ‘COME ON!’ He refused to make eye contact with me.’: Mom to children with autism shares upsetting bus stop moment
“I yelled how proud I was so they could hear me through the window and made ‘I love you’ in sign language. I didn’t need him to get in trouble. I needed him to simply UNDERSTAND.”
‘You can’t be THAT deaf. You can speak to me.’ My disability was always up for debate.’: Advocate urges ‘there’s no right or wrong way to be deaf’
“They pulled out my eardrums. ‘You’ll be permanently deaf by 30.’ I was devastated.”
‘My sister just had a baby IN the car!’ I put my mouth over her small mouth and nose, and sucked the fluid out.’: Mom survives car accident, births daughter in car
“A woman rushed over to us, frantically asking, ‘Are you okay?’ I stammered, ‘What happened?’ My husband was screaming in a way I’d NEVER heard anyone scream.”
‘If someone cannot say yes, the answer is NO.’: Sexual assault survivor brings awareness to what isn’t considered consent
“Two boys made a decision FOR me.”
‘A diagnosis wouldn’t be worth it. You can’t do anything about it.’ I was angry. No one took me seriously.’: Chronic illness warrior urges ‘my pain is real’
“I kept telling my mom, ‘This isn’t anxiety.’ I was finally fighting for myself, yet people continued to ignore me. Instead of giving up, I fought harder.”
‘I dipped a breadstick in peanut butter and let Jake give it a lick. Minutes later, his tongue was hanging. His whole face and lips were so swollen, I could barely recognize him.’: Mom raises food allergy awareness after nearly losing son
“Terrified, I just kept asking, ‘Is he getting worse?’ I got the one word I feared the most: ‘Yes.’ All the numbers on his monitors were going crazy. I kept looking at them, then back at my little boy, who was barely recognizable. He was projectile vomiting everywhere; his little body was struggling.”
‘The doctor started with, ‘Do you remember the worst-case scenarios we discussed? We’re facing one of those.’: Mom welcomes rainbow baby
“My heart sank further as each anomaly was listed. ‘Your baby doesn’t have a pronounced jawline. His limbs hadn’t formed below his elbows and knees.'”
‘Why don’t you just relax?’: Couple battling infertility offers advice on how to support others
“I BEG you, STOP saying this to people trying to have a child.”