Armies Stand Behind My Daughter
Language: en
On my daughter’s very first day of preschool, I received three friend requests on social media. All of them were from the same person. As soon as I accepted the request, she sent me a short video of my daughter, Abby, sitting quietly in the classroom during circle time. Immediately after, another message popped up. “Abby’s mom, is your daughter a Down syndrome kid?” Pressing down the sudden knot of discomfort in my chest, I typed back a calm, measured reply: “My daughter is perfectly healthy. She does not have Down syndrome.” I thought a clear explanation would put an end to it, but my…