A Mother Learns to Accept Her Son’s Disability | Holding Moses | The New Yorker Documentary 

Why is your amazement important?

It's not an honest portrayal of Moses's life. This movie was made in complete dishonesty.

hey. As someone with a disability, i just wanted to say that disabled is not a bad word, and using special needs is euphemistically stigmatizing.

As another person with a disability,please feel free to use special needs rather than disabled.

Everybody has deep abiding pain eventually.

My son is disabled. I have new hopes and dreams for him now. Don’t be heartbroken for mothers of doable kids they are a blessing

Being a parent is difficult. Being a parent of a disabled child is extremely difficult. We don’t love our children less because we express how hard it is or because we feel grief for what our child will go through for the rest of their life? Grief is a natural phase that all parents of disabled children will go through at some point (because they love them and didn’t want anything bad to happen to them)

Sending you so much love and wishes for ease, for you and your child .

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This child will never be able to live without a caregiver. That kind of medical support is expensive, so she will spend the rest of her life caring for him. It is mentally exhausting to loose autonomy over your life like that, and until you’re in this situation, I wouldn’t judge.

@@janelledeloatch8355 The parent's life? What about the child's life? They're both supposed to matter, but you're displaying that you only care about one.

@@janelledeloatch8355 Many of these kids end up in state care as adults.

@@janelledeloatch8355 it's not your business

@@janelledeloatch8355 It is not expensive, it is fully funded by the state and county. Also, randi only parents half the time. The other half she insists she doesn't want to be available.

There is a lot of parent like that too. It's a life long thing I think. It takes a while for parents to accept kids disability. Sooner is better I think.

They end up in state care.

Pain for everyone involved. I know a lot of disabled people, some who were disabled as kids. The rejection of a parent over disability is enough to put people in therapy, at a minimum. Others didn't get diagnosed until later in life, which meant that their lives were much harder. Parents trying to insist their disabled kids aren't disabled makes things harder for the kids, and has life long effects.

So... you think just because a child is disabled, they don't deserve a parent, and their parent shouldn't even try to take care of them? Are you the sort of person who would leave their spouse if they became disabled, and forget 'in sickness and in health'?

You clearly have no clue. Watch something else

that's what you got out of this? What a rude comment.

And this is relevant because???

She hasn't been in a Stomp cast for years and years. She's an intellectual property attorney for one of the divisions of Meta (FKA Facebook). I looked it up because I was also curious about how in the world she could be managing this financially. For the record, I don't think there's anything wrong with being curious about something like that. Most people would be in financial ruin trying to raise three kids (apparently alone) at all, let alone when one of them has a severe disability and needs specialized care. Also, her house doesn't appear particularly large or new but it's obviously been very nicely renovated. That's expensive. People notice things and just wonder sometimes.

it's not your business

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