Cohousing-L Mailing List: children and caring for them

[Casey Morrigan (cjmorr]

A question for Liz Stevenson at Southside, if I may.  Regarding your son's
invisible disability - it sounds as though for a long time there was no
venue or forum for talking to other community members about your son and his
disability.  Is this the case? I am interested in how it came about that
other parents didn't have information about what was going on, and why the
"hunkering down" which seems so, well, it just seems a hard and painful
thing to do.  If you care to share on the list. I am interested.
It is so similar to what has happened in our community recently.  In our
case, the parents discovered a learning disability over time, rather than
knowing about it before move-in.  Therefore, all community members were
puzzled about the child's behaviors but didn't have much in the way of
understanding what or why.  A video about the disability has had a powerful
effect on parents and non parents alike and given us the gift of
understanding and compassion.

Casey Morrigan
Two Acre Wood
Sebastopol, CA  95472


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