Living With Special Needs

My heart has slowly been breaking. The fissures and cracks have names. Asher Brown, Billy Lucas, Tyler Clementi, Seth Walsh, Justin Aaberg, Raymond Chase — young people who’ve taken their own lives because the bullying and shaming was too much for them to bear. With the news of each death,...

You didn’t wake up this morning knowing that your world view would change, but it has. You heard the words so many of us have heard, and your heart split open. Autism. Or attention deficit disorder. Or anxiety disorder. Or obsessive compulsive disorder. Or mood disorder. Or some other string of seemingly...