Your experience of your daughter telling you she did not want to have Downs Syndrome when she grew up brought tears to my eyes. How very smart she must be and I suspect a blessing to you in ways you never knew. There is an older movie I love called “The Other Sister” and it holds many aspects of what one child is able to do and how often the other sister feels as though she too must be able to do the same. Check it out if you feel so inclined and be prepared to go from tears to laughter and back to tears. I honestly sat in the theater many years ago and began to tear up enough to make my contact fall out of my eye….as I felt around on my clothes in the dark for my contact I was able to find it; I put it in my mouth to moisten it (yes, I know how gross that sounds) and as I did my tears turned to laughter and I swallowed it whole! Needless to say, I sat watching the rest of the movie with one eye closed…to date, that very movie changed the way I saw my sister for the rest of her life.

Thanks for sharing your beautiful story of your daughter Sophie.