The Boy In The Moon: A Father's Search For His Disabled Son - Plot & Excerpts
Even if your child is as normal as a bright day, was our life so far from your own experience? More intensive, perhaps; more extreme more often, yes. But was it really different in kind?We weren’t disability masochists. I met those people too, the parents of disabled children who seemed to relish their hardship and the opportunity to make everyone else feel guilty and privileged. I disliked them, hated their sense of angry entitlement, their relentless self-pity masquerading as bravery and compassion, their inability to move on, to ask for help. They wanted the world to conform to their circumstances, whereas—as much as I could have put words to it—I simply wanted the rest of the world to admit (a minor request!) that our lives, Walker’s and Hayley’s and my wife’s and mine, weren’t any different from anyone else’s, except in degree of concentration. I realize I was delusional. People often said, “How do you do it? How are you still capable of laughing, when you have a son like that?”
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