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  • Why Special Needs Moms like me will miss Kristina Braverman

    Suzanne Perryman July 27, 2023 Special Needs

    I haven’t fought cancer, run for mayor or started my own charter school, but I am the mom of a special needs child and there is something powerful about Parenthood that completely connects me, something I will deeply miss.

    parenthood, motherhood, perenthood, special needs, tv show, drama, braverman

    A Father in the Dark

    Suzanne Perryman March 6, 2023 essays

    I have been his daughter for 19 of my 20 years, adopted when I was almost one. He is the only father I have ever known.

    adoption, fatherhood, parenting, daughter, cancer, death, caregiver

    Unedited; What Happens When You Start To Share Your Ugly Story

    Suzanne Perryman September 23, 2022 essays

    The ugly I began with and had been transformed into a beautiful sense of understanding.

    special needs, understanding, motherhood, parenting, fear, handicapped, wheelchair

    What Beauty and The Beast Can Teach Us: To Be True, To Be Different, To Choose Love

    Suzanne Perryman April 2, 2017 Girls

    My daughter will always be different, and with difference comes discrimination. And with adversity, there is truth and with love, there is judgment.

    You And Me And The Space That Will Come Between Us

    Suzanne Perryman March 26, 2017 Tweens & Teens

    Now, you are still vulnerable like the infant I once longed to protect, and although I don’t know exactly where you are heading, I know I have done my best.

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