Transcending Special - A New Ordinary

. . . when the horrific now of arriving at special is gone . . . when the fragile and vulnerable life has subsided . . .

. . . after time passes and we have coped and done okay . . . when we have come to love our child just as they are . . . like life itself and see their strengths and their capacities . . .

. . . when we look at ourselves and notice that we can’t remember life before we became special . . . when the special label fades and we take on our own version of ordinary . . . but on the other side of special . . . a new ordinary . . . a transcendent but silent ordinary. . .

. . . we are now different . . . others know we are different . . . they want to label us extraordinary but we don’t want to stand out . . . we don’t want to be different . . . we worked ‘bloody’ hard to reach ordinary . . . so just ordinary will do . . .