Our Special Needs Life: We Are Done Explaining!!

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges and societal expectations faced by parents of children with special needs, emphasizing their decision to stop explaining their experiences to others.

There’s a layer of life that not everyone sees—the constant questions, the stares, the assumptions, the need people feel to understand… or worse, to judge. In this episode of Chromosomes & Chaos, we’re saying it clearly: WE ARE DONE EXPLAINING. Done explaining our child. Done explaining our parenting. Done explaining why things look different, feel different, or are different. When you’re raising a child with Down syndrome or special needs, it can feel like the world expects a running ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Amber Robinson, Patty Sneddon-Kisting

Topics covered

• special needs
• parenting
• Down syndrome
• judgment
• family life

Keywords

• special needs
• Down syndrome
• parenting
• judgment
• family

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