Yesterday I unfriended some guy I’ve never met for posting this status update: “I have to poo.” Really? Congrats. And goodbye. I took way too much pleasure in the act of deleting him and wondered, for the millionth time, why I (and almost everyone else I know) am glued to Facebook. Then I remembered a […]
When Sophie was 4, there was some question as to whether she actually qualified as mentally retarded (the official term they used then — and still do, to a large part). I really liked the idea of having a kid with Down syndrome who wasn’t retarded, even though all the medical literature tells you the […]
Dear Ms. Silverman, Thank you for writing to share your request. We certainly understand your desire for a My American Girl® doll with Down’s Syndrome. Over the years, we have received many requests for characters facing various medical conditions or physical challenges. We realize that girls want a character to which they can relate. All […]
The other evening, at bedtime, I was reading Sophie a book called Moo, Baa, La La La, and my eyes landed on a book I had put on her shelf before she was born, the young adult classic A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle. I was suddenly sad, thinking that Sophie probably will never […]
