When Motherhood Requires Lifting a Whole World Off Its Axis
A boy sits inside his mother's plastic raincoat as they wait to cross at a traffic light during a rainstorm in Beijing, China. (Kevin Frayer via Getty Images)
I spent years desperately trying to solve the mystery of my son’s illness. A chance encounter with another mother changed my life—and is now poised to change his.
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Maybe you are lucky and you have a friend like Alana Newhouse. If you’re even luckier, you have a mother like her.
Alana has spent the past seven years trying to solve the mystery of her son’s illness. As she writes below: “If parenting a child with special needs is like pushing an enormous boulder up a treacherous mountain, parenting a child with speci…
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