Comments on: Lunch Box Excavation

By: sam

sam — Wed, 01 May 2019 17:10:35 +0000

Sophie’s right . it IS hard. .but so are turns for dancers, so are computers for me. So is life. She is wondrous and hard has made her the courageous soul she is . . but let’s not forget HARD has fueled every member of your dear family and that bravery, strength and resolve has sent a beam of knowing and brilliance into the world. xx

None of us want hard . .she’s just honest enough to own it . .Bravo

By: Vivian Reamer

Vivian Reamer — Wed, 01 May 2019 14:31:49 +0000

My daughter is 33. I don’t think she has ever been happier. She doesn’t have the life I envisioned for her when she was younger, but she has the life she wants and loves. She engaged to a man with down syndrome that she went to toddler classes with, I love him and his family. She has friends she talks with every day. She has friends that care about her, without disabilities. She laughs every day. I have never seen anyone enjoy life like she does.

By: Vivian Reamer

Vivian Reamer — Wed, 01 May 2019 14:31:49 +0000

By: Linda Morrow

Linda Morrow — Wed, 01 May 2019 05:46:30 +0000

I have a scene in my “still-in-the-works memoir about my son Steve eating lunch alone. Heartbreaking.

By: Linda Morrow

Linda Morrow — Wed, 01 May 2019 05:46:30 +0000

I have a scene in my “still-in-the-works memoir about my son Steve eating lunch alone. Heartbreaking.

By: Sandra McElwee

Sandra McElwee — Wed, 01 May 2019 01:23:46 +0000

Sophie REALLY needs the NDSC Teen/Adult conference–it changed EVERYTHING for my son when he went to his first one and has only missed 2 in the 10 years since.
It will be a game-changer if there’s still space for this year’s conference!

By: Cindy Anderson

Cindy Anderson — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 23:12:42 +0000

Oh my goodness! So many things ran through my mind when I read that, “It is hard to have Down Syndrome.” It’s heartbreaking. And what CAN you do? Especially if she doesn’t want to talk with you about what she’s going through.

My daughter is 34 and I still feel like an investigator. She doesn’t talk to me very much (Self talk? All. The. Time.) so I have to read between the lines, I have to be sneaky by listening outside her apartment door (she lives in our daylight basement) to try to learn what’s bothering her. Like you, I don’t go through her phone or anything, just trying to figure out what is making her sad or angry… I hope Sophie begins to share her day with you soon!

By: Sandra

Sandra — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 18:57:18 +0000

Oh $@;$ you made me cry.

By: Rosie

Rosie — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 17:32:19 +0000

You are both doing great!! Both your achievements are amazing.

By: Alexis Magness

Alexis Magness — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 17:01:49 +0000

Once again, thank you for telling your story (and Sophie’s). I can’t imagine what the two of you go through on a daily basis, but just know that both of you are inspiring more people than you could ever know. People that just read the stories and never say anything but can’t be anything but inspired. I don’t often comment, but know that these stories, these LIVES, warm, and sometimes pain, my heart, as any good story should. Keep ‘em comin’.