When I was pregnant with my first child, my ob-gyn referred me to a genetic counselor “just in case.”
When I asked my children how they felt about the XLH I had passed on to them, both of them spoke of the disability as almost, though not quite, a gift. “It has made me not fit in,” Eliza said, “but it has taught me empathy.” “I am sometimes bitter about being so short,” Walker said, “and about the pain, but I am very glad to be alive.” Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/07/opinion/passing-my-disability-on-to-my-children.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0 Sheila Black is the author of three books of poetry, most recently, “Wen Kroy,” an editor of “Beauty Is a Verb: The New Disability Poetry,” and the director of Gemini Ink, a literary arts center in San Antonio. -- Avinash Shahi Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
