The Speed of Dark

For parents,  a child’s “pathology”  or diagnosis may sometimes seem to encompass the whole world.   You’re in the trenches, dealing with it every day–the child’s behaviors, the child’s struggles, the reaction of those around you to the child and the child’s struggles, and your struggles, the therapy appointments, the judgments so many people make about you as a parent and your child as a child.   Anyone in any of life’s “trenches” (whether it’s a health or economic or social trench)  begins to feel that the sides of the trench and the shells raining down from above define reality.

But that’s not the case.

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