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Raising a Child with a Disability: Embracing What "Could Be" versus What "Should Be" with Kristin Smedley
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This comment hit me like a ton of bricks. We often get caught up focusing on what should we all be doing versus what we could do.
Kristin Smedley, author, advocate and mother to two blind children shares her story about how she came to terms with this. When her first son was diagnosed as being blind, she fought her emotions of all things he should do but won't be able to.
It was his ability to embrace the life he knew, where he was so happy, that opened her eyes to possibilities. Then when her second son was also diagnosed, she was ready to help him and his older brother focus on what they both could do, if given the tools and assistance.
How much do we who have all our senses miss because we focus on what we think we should be doing, in many cases to please others and in doing so miss the world around us.
A wonderful story about her journey as author, advocate and leader in the blind community focusing on changing the perspective of others.
One of my favorite conversations. Enjoy. Please share this one out.
About Kristin
Kristin Smedley is the Best Selling author of Thriving Blind: Stories of Real People Succeeding Without Sight and a TEDx speaker. Kristin won the Champion of Hope Award and coordinated the first legislation in US history to be submitted in Braille. Kristin spoke at the FDA to achieve the first ever FDA approved gene therapy to treat blindness in the USA. Kristin co-founded Thriving Blind Academy to solve the unemployment, literacy, and financial crisis in the blind the community.
www.kristinsmedley.com
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