Bobert -- you wrote: "This stuff sounds like a real bummer. As I was reading the link I was thinking of just how much courage it must take to live with such a disability... and grow as a person under such adverse conditions. "

You are so right! More right than you realise

I forgot to say that the essay in that link was written by our Hesperis. That is the kind of thing she's up against.

~ Jande