“So this might take a minute but THANKYOU to each of you on this amazing show. I just found you this week and I have listened to several episodes and it’s life changing. I’m a homeschooling mom of six, my youngest was born at 26 weeks and spent his first four months in the hospital. He was diagnosed with DS at two months old. I tell people he got it from the hospital. Insert laughing here. I didn’t cry because he had so many life threatening issues,DS was just another thing. It was a blessing, I think, to find out this way. It was a miracle he came home so perfectly healthy. I raised him like my others and really didn’t focus much on DS. Having five other kids made it hard to do all the therapies and yes I had guilt but he was my baby. He was premature so he’s pretty small and I was happy to baby him. Because I homeschool I never worried about sending him to a school and how others would treat him. He hangs out with our people and I can mama bear him all day long.
Fast forward five years. My sweet cherub is a thrower and recently seems to want to grab strangers in public. I said a quick prayer that God would help me find a podcast and started the search for behavior in DS. It brought me to your episode with Dr David Stein. Of course it was insanely useful. I immediately paused the episode to go to Amazon to buy his book, where Amazon informed me, I already purchased this a few years ago….regardless I was hooked on your podcast. I already read your incredible book a few years ago too but I never knew about your show. I just finished Vernon Jackson episode and love knowing he lives in this world. A person with a heart like his!! Wow. I listened to the Mother’s Day one today (and bought myself a Tshirt) and going to order Blessed are the rest of us today as well. (Crystal potty training at 4 was something I didn’t need to hear today. I was just going to buy Aidan diapers until he could drive….)
Each of you women are changing the world by changing the narrative. Thank you for being you and sharing your life and experiences with others. I’m really looking forward to catching up on all the episodes and crawling out from my rock and discovering all the things I have been missing. You bring light to my day.”
Ann Moyer via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/08/24