A beautiful article in this mornings Globe and Mail shares a glimpse into one Mom’s journey and celebration of her son’s gifts.
“Technically speaking, Benjamin has a number of somewhat unflattering terms hyphened to his humanity: non-verbal, low-to-medium functioning, ADHD, intellectually delayed, OCD, and that old killer, mentally retarded. Yada yada yada.
I shudder to think I felt so crushed and deeply terrorized by all those qualifiers at one time. Now, quite frankly, I couldn’t care less about the labels – (okay, other than that labels qualify him for indispensable assistance and grants). He is my son and I am proud to say he is a chip off the old block: He is incredibly good looking and, even more subjectively speaking, he has great taste in music.”
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