Across the Universe: Down Syndrome and Autism

When you have a baby with Down syndrome, life suddenly gets very complicated.  You feel like you’ve been kicked out of one universe and somehow wound up in another. But after a while the tears dry up and the fears die down and life begins to resume a patina of normalcy.    The baby?  The baby’s adorable.  He’s…

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“Go now!”

Session 1 of Camp is over and I went to closing Saturday morning. I didn’t know as many of the camper families in this session—which was for teens and young adults—as I usually do. Most of the campers Miss Gay and I worked with the first 12 years of camp are now attending the adult camps.…

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