Four Brothers with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (The Story of a Blended Family) 

"What are your brothers like?" "Annoying." Yup, it's a normal family.

what I will remember from this interview is that we are not equal. You are so much better than the majority! if more people thought and acted like you, this world would look so much better ❤️ thank you so much for sharing your story ❤️

Being middle age that struggles with depression/ADHD, I am so proud of each and every one of you. What an absolutely wonderful and loving family you all are! Thank you for sharing your story. Mom and Dad, keep up the great job of raising these 6 beautiful children. Such a handsome family! Having this awesome and beautiful woman as your true mom is a definite bonus!

Oh my heart. This precious family. The mom is so correct in that there is discrimination within the world of disabilities. Invisible disabilities are so much less supported. Two of my children have FAS and it is such a difficult journey. God bless this sweet family. I pray for adequate supports for them and for all those with FASD and trauma.

this is such a loving family. it breaks and warms my heart that these kids have had such a hard upbringing but have found unconditional love in their parents and new siblings

Ray ray! He just makes you wanna be nicer his smile is addictive what a great brother

Very handsome, smart and wonderful young men..I wish them the best in life! Love the parents!!!!! Love the entire family! We all need unconditional love.

These young men have a great outlook on life between their humor and compassion I think they will go far in life. People with disabilities always have a tendency to have such a great outlook on life. For the rest of us that don't have disabilities we just don't realize how good we got it in this world. When you have something that holds you back like this and you still can rise above it that makes you a wonderful human being. I hope nothing but the best for these young men. SKÅL

what a beautiful family with amazing parents and kids. they really made my heart warm. I wish the best for warren and the military, what a sweet boy. I hope his pain only ever gets easier, so deserving of happiness these boys are.

Beautiful family and so much love is giving can truly see how much they care for each other. The boy have goals they want to accomplish. Very big hearts. Great parents. This truly touched my heart, i have ADHD. I understand the struggle in math and reading

One of my favorite interviews. I felt the love they have for one another. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

This is such an outstanding family. All their kids are outstanding in their own way and I wouldn't mind at all if we had neighbors like them next door. I wish them all the best, and I have no doubt they'll all become successful in their own way as long as they can stay among those who truly have their best interests at heart. My love goes out to their entire family.

I love how loving and supportive they are of each other!! What an amazing family

They are such a cute and amazing family. Huge respect to the family but also to all of the children. They seem so kind and loving persons. They are so honest and warm-hearted. I wish them the best and hope the future will become a bit easier and people will respect than and show understanding for their situation.

What a lovely family, an example to us all.

Im three years late but I hope these parents learn how to speak life into these beautiful kids.

You can just tell that the mother's love is FIERCE.

They are all so handsome well spoken and sweet and the dad and step mum seem amazing

Don't let people change you. Having a disability can make you harden especially as a child growing up with a disability. I'm 43 was diagnosed at 13 with bi-polar. And she is right when it's not physical it's hard. I'm also an addict, and now in a wheelchair directly because of it. i come from a very long line of addicts generation after generation. I still can't get the help because i'm an addict so i get looked at like i'm messed up. I'm a mother who used while pregnant. My son has down syndrome and he's autistic. I have a lot of guilt. They love their children and want everything that any other parent wants for their children. I'm white and I grew up poor. We live in a middle class neighborhood now and my son "STILL" does not have the services he should. i have to pay out of pocket to get him diagnosed. The school says he's autistic but I have no formal diagnosis. Keep pushing for your family.....change takes time. I know that's easier said than done. I don't see any difference then any other children, meaning they feel the same way as any other child or adult for that matter. They want love, to have a happy stabile family, they have a fears of failure and how the world sees them, they have hopes and dreams. Why is it so hard for more families to get the help they need? Some families do, but very little compared to how many are in need. Once they're adult any failure, any mistake will get looked at liken they've done something horrible and it's cause they're bad people when in reality they weren't given the help necessary for them to succeed. Then what? Jail? I'm praying for your family. I'm watching this 4 years later, all I can do is pray.

Omg Warren broke my soul. You can just see how much appreciation and love he has for this family and sadness from whatever trauma and loss he had before. He can't say anything because the emotions involved would just have him bawling.

When he said "I'm a good person" I lost it....they are all so sweet and just positive. These parents are amazing

“I don’t want my brain to be small” - His humor is immaculate, I love it and his smile is so pure ! These boys are angels! 😇🤍

I cried watching the boy with tears running down his cheek. More so because of how much he was trying to hold it back. Let it out little man. You are loved by your family, and yes they are your family.

It broke my heart when the father talked about worrying about them becoming adults and having problems with the law/the police.

Mama doesn't play ANY games about her boys and I love it! They deserve a strong, nurturing, protective Mama to balance out the anger and hurt they must feel towards their biological mother. Their dad did a great job choosing a partner. God bless them all. 💜

Warren is 😞 so sad. His wish is for everyone to survive indicates he had some serious trauma when he was younger. I’m so impressed with these boys. I love how one boy talked about not hurting someone when they hurt him that is HUGE for any child and even more so with the diagnosis alchohal fetal syndrome. The boys are intelligent and have beautiful personality.

Wow. When the mom said that some cashiers give them incorrect change on purpose my jaw dropped. I can’t believe there are people out there who would take advantage of their disability

5:22 when she said the discrimination against certain disabilities and how people treat certain disabilities different is sooooo true. My daughter is autistic and has epilepsy and multiple times I have witnessed state employees treating us as though we aren’t “legitimately” disabled... it disgusts me that even the people who are supposed to help us try and bring us down.

Warren's emotions hit me the most out of anyone in this video. I'm so glad he and the other kids have a supportive, loving home life !

Hearing that people take advantage of them sickened me. How utterly heartless do you have to be? No integrity or respect at all.

microcephaly might have made their brains smaller but I think it also made their hearts larger because these boys are so full of love:) This family is such an inspiration

I want to give Warren a big hug. I know he's hiding a lot of pain through his demeanor

I am convinced they understand so much more than those teachers, they may not know math but they know things about being human some people forgot. They are beautiful and I am convinced I could learn from them.

Everyone please keep in mind this isn't their biological mother in this video.

There is always hope, one of my ex girlfriends from highschool had fetal alcohol syndrome and she had to work harder than everyone around her, but she realized her dream of becoming a mycologist. She had a good ten year run until the brain cancer took her from all of us. Love is always wise.

Considering their disability, they are quite intelligent and can express themselves well. What great, handsome, loving kids!! It's nice to see the love their mom and dad have for them. You can tell by how the kids talk of them that they love their family very much..❤

The most interesting moment in this video is when Warren is sitting in between the two parents and is asked two serious questions about his worldview, both of which he ultimately decides not to answer, at which point the mom steps in and says on his behalf that these kinds of questions make him emotional and thus he says nothing. If she didn't say that, I wonder how many people would've felt the same amount of sympathy. I only say this because their concerns over police abuse are very real, and society does view them in a very particular way, which is all the more reason we need to be very conscious of our own biases. These are children dealing with a legacy of racism and neglect, subjected to multiple diagnoses and disorders, all of which are compounded from the way we look at black children -- the way we are predisposed to seeing them in a very violent and negative light. Understand that these children/young men have to deal with all of it. All of our comments don't change the fact that most of those commenting would so easily dismiss them in real life, when there isn't the buffer of a host, and the internet, and who knows how many miles between us and them. The first lesson we get from this shouldn't be "Oh, wow, how amazing!", like it makes us superior people for writing something positive about this family. The first lesson should instead be, "Oh, wow, I can't believe the amount of pressure that these kids are under! The lack of funding in their community. The impact that racism has daily in their lives.". Because this world won't get better by lifting this family up with a few friendly comments. It will get better when we rip apart institutional racism, the prison industrial complex, corruption in both the educational and judicial systems. When we challenge racism at even the most subtle level, that's when they (these young men) can just be their own age. It's not a "next man" problem; It's an "us" problem. It's something we either take an active account in eliminating or we are entirely complicit in keeping it. Anything else is just lip service, IMO.

PLEASE do an update on this family!!

dude warren is awesome. you can tell he really thinks about each question and the responses he has to each question. i wish you the best warren! and all in this video. and not in a pity way-you all seem like great people

This woman is amazing to step up and be a mom to these sweet boys! When the boys talked about finally having a mom who was present and cared about them 😭😭 made me happy but broke my heart. "I like everything about myself" lol love it!💓💓💓 The dad here is their biological dad? I do get worried if they ever have interactions with the police. God bless and protect them

Seeing warren made me want to give him the biggest warmest hug possible when he started crying and there’s something so special about Keivon’s eyes. And everyone is determined which is encouraging to be the best version of themselves

What sweet, handsome, kind, loving young men. What a lovely family.

The boy in the red jersey (sorry I don't remember his name!) seems so happy and loving towards his family. You can really tell his parents are so proud of him, especially dad with the way he looked at him while he was mentioning unconditional love 🥰

Smart and good-looking boys with a bright future ahead of them.

I'm so glad they have such a nice mom now. She loves those children.

As a girl with ADHD and Fetal alcohol syndrome myself, I am just so impressed by this video. This is a great family💕

Thank you so much for this. I'm getting married this week to an incredible woman who is fostering and adopting 7 kids. 5 of them have FASD. I have 2 children of my own, 1 with CP. I'm coming into this with little to no understanding of FASD. I see so much of what your kids struggle with and what my fiancés kids struggles are. I came here to learn and I left with so much. Thank you.

My DEEP respect to those absolutely amazing parents. This family is more functional and loving than most families I know. They are all beautiful, beautiful people.

That's the thing though..... they are open about their condition and it's impact on their ability to function neorotypically, but their emotional maturity and dedication to their family is years above their peers. Truly, I fely inspired by them instead of feeling sorry for them. What an amazing, deeply loving and understanding family. They have space to express their love, fear and hope for each other. Thanks for sharing your story! (So glad comments are back! Been wanting to say that for a year now, lol)

The mother, whom aged out of Foster Care, is impressive.

hearing those boys talk about how much their parents love them is so moving. them knowing that they're loved and seeing how that reflects in their overwhelmingly positive self-image is so inspiring

Those parents have put so much love into caring for their sons. It takes strength and determination to raise children with special needs because you often have to fight to get them the services they need. I can tell they're badasses. Also, they've been raising 5 freaking kids (and they've been doing it WELL). That right there is an accomplishment.

"me and you are basically the same, it's just that i have a condition and you don't but we are still the same" this is so real

'What is your the favorite thing about yourself?" 'I like everything about myself. it's just a warm feeling thing." This kid is more mentally stable than most adults LOL! Good on him I am so happy for this family, so much love!

Man, the older brother is so convicted about life, I swear I'd never realize anything ""wrong"" with him, he's a typical sports guy who has ADHD. Like, bruh knows exactly how things are, his way of thinking is inspiring, even more considering he's aware of said condition. I really hope he manages to get to NFL.

7:50 the kids get shortchanged by cashiers? That's appalling. Some people have no shame

seeing warren crying made me burst into tears. he's such a good kid and I pray that he gets all the best things in life.

Every police force, teaching staff, and anyone involved with the public should see this video. So many people would see these kids in public and assume they are just se little thugs because of their skin and the disabilities they have. But this is the epidemy of a loving family and these are all genuinely good and respectable young men that had a hard beginning. I love them all!!! They are all an inspiration

I’m happy to see Vanessa happy - we served together

That boy in the red jersey has a smile on his face!! ALWAYS!! He just looks like an extremely happy kid!!👍👍 Kudos to these parents!! I know a LOT of parents that could definitely take some lessons from you two!! 👏👏

“I love everything about myself.” God this couple did an amazing job as parents. It just shines right threw in this interview with everyone 🥰

That mother is an absolute angel. What a beautiful, wonderful person she is.

"Its just unconditional love (and) I feel it all the time." What a beautiful thing to hear. That's the best thing a child can acknowledge in a family. 🥰

"we're taking care of them and they're taking care of us" what a beautiful definition of family

I wish I could wipe away the struggles that these sweet boys have. To Warren: I'm glad you've found a wonderful family, & I'm glad you're in this world! You'll have a good life with a heart that big, just like the rest of this family!

These are literally the influences we need. The brother with a Cougars shirt is too good for this world!

I've been crying for 20 minutes. inspired.taught.this is heartwarming

The comments are back and I want to say something. Big Thanks to Chris Ulmer for giving us insight in their lives , and getting them to share their experiences, and being a friend. And a massive thank you to the guys bring interviewed. I wish them the best of luck in their lives!

I think this is a good display of how disabilities affect teenagers. Teenagers go through a lot of self-esteem and identity issues, and this must be accelerated so much with disabilities.

I have every faith that these boys will grow up to be good people, because they seem like good people already. So determind and caring. I love that the family has taken Warren in as one of their own. The Sessions seem like wonderful parents, I'm sure all their children will make them proud. ETA: Mrs Session's dress is stunning!

I’m crying. I love these two parents. I love this family.

I am amazed by the emotional intelligence of all these kids. The parents are doing a great job.

As Warren said, if i had one wish, it would be for everyone to be alive. I may struggle with a few autoimmune conditions, bur everyday i remember that i am alive.

The tragedy of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is that it (was) a hundred percent avoidable.

Those kids are sweet as anything! I’d be proud to have them as brothers!

It must be really hard for the parents, knowing how tough life is for black people already, especially with the police. Just as the dad said, the police won't care or understand their disability and they have to prepare them for every scenario... It is wonderful how loving and supportive they all are of each other, the seem like very good people!

Wonderful young men. I'm praying they will achieve everything they dream of and be happy forever ❤️ Warren, as a military member myself, it would be an honor to serve with you brother. We need more people with passion

Damn, I just realized all my childhood friends from the hood including myself are f’d up in some way lol This looks completely normal to me. The thing is tho we were freakishly good at a lot of things. Like FREAKISH

You know what? These boys have very nice dispositions- they are really well mannered. I mean, we all have our moments and I'm sure they do but the parents seem to be doing an extraordinary job raising them. Fabulous young men❤️❤️❤️ I love them ...

Warren crying , my heart cracked open . Bless that baby boy and bless the parents . I hope they all get everything they could ever want in this life ♥️

I hope they're doing okay! Any updates?

The kid in the red basketball uniform is magnetic. His energy is magic.

Every single one of these boys is so adorable and you can tell they all have the kindest hearts. I wish them all the best that life can provide. How precious!!!

This got me in tears 😭 god grow these children to remain happy & healthy

What a handsome bunch of sweet compassionate young men. They have good hearts. I bet they can do very well, they just need more one on one with a tutor. What an amazing mother they have to take over being their mother. These parent's are so loving, they also need praise for all their hard work and patience rasing their son's and daughter. ❤

I don’t normally comment but it’s so beautiful seeing you respect and showcase this family of color with RESPECT. you treat everyone like people regardless of external factors and we truly need more ppl like you

Those boys are VERY intelligent. IDC what ANBODY says. May they go forth & accomplish ALL that they set out to accomplish. In JESUS' name, AMEN.

Those boys absolutely stole my heart. < 3

I'll never forget this interview. I've learned a lot today from this family that will last me a lifetime. God bless them.

"I don't want to be in my bed crying because somebody said something to me" this broke my heart, I had to pause the vid for a sec

"What makes you the happiest" "LIfe. My life" that was beautiful.

I can feel what the dad is saying about sheltering his children. I know that I have sheltered my son with special needs, but now that he is a preteen, I am trying to talk more about real life and push him to be more independent. It's hard. You want your child to be a child and not be treated different, but they also have to function in the world.

What a lovely family!! And I love the mom's dress

These 2 people are amazingly special and extraordinary parents. This is some strong stuff.... Phew

This mother is a Warrior Queen! Well done to their dad too. These kids are loved and they know it.

I used to babysit some children with fetal alcohol syndrome (they were adopted, and the birth mother is finally sober and is getting her life back together!). The children were wonderful, but their disseases caused some serious challenges in their life that especially affect their mental health in terms of mood management and being able to express their feelings in appropriate manners. Every day is a new challenge for those kids, but it's been wonderful seeing them grow up and turn into adolescents and learn every day new ways to tackle life

'I like everything about myself'. Such a genuine happy infectious smile

You can see the parenting in their commonalities. They express wanting to be good, kind people. They believe they can do and be anything they want. They appreciate their parents and siblings. All different kinds of kids yet they all share those beautiful values.

I think one of the best questions is "What should people say if they want to be your friend?" For lots of people and me too, it's very useful to know how different people feel about that question, and think about the answers, it's really good information to facilitate communication and making people feel appreciated. It makes me think to myself "I should ask people that when I meet them."

I can relate to having ADHD and getting SO MAD sometimes! I really appreciate this wonderful family sharing their stories. All of those smiles were infectious and the love everyone has is tangible.