Having a child with a rare diagnosis is some what isolating.

After Emily was diagnosed with Cri du Chat Syndrome in Oct 1999, nobody else in our world had Cri du Chat Syndrome, nobody had even heard of it.

Seriously, even our doctors didn’t know anything about it!

Facebook helped us connect with other families and when I started to blog, I decided to introduce you to some of our extended family!

Here are my interviews so far!

21. Let’s meet Arizona

20. Let’s meet N.

19. Let’s meet Jie Jie

18. Let’s meet Turner

17. Let’s meet Kali and Kera

16. Let’s meet Natalie

15. Let’s meet Wade

14. Let’s meet Nellie

13. Let’s meet Dustine Aaron

12. Let’s meet John

11. Let’s meet Olivia

10. Let’s meet Alexia

9. Let’s meet Allan

8. Interview with Rachel

7. Let’s meet Maxwell

6. Let’s meet Katie

5. Let’s meet Kelli

4…

In a high school cafeteria.

Why is it that a table of football players is just that! A table of guys who play football together, they share a hobby which makes them spend time together so at lunch they sit together.

Same goes for the cheerleaders.

And so on.

In this jungle there is a table of kids with various abilities. The special need table.

Some people look at it as the place they (the special need kids) have to eat. You know because they don’t belong in the other groups…

I disagree. They don’t sit together because they don’t belong… They sit together because like the football players and the cheerleaders, they have something in common.

It’s a new year, they are 3 weeks in and getting to know each other.

Emily for the first time ever feels comfortable at lunch. She sits at her table. With kids kinda…