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How to discuss limited independence with your disabled teen

My 15-year-old daughter with Down syndrome keeps asking why she cannot live alone like her older brother and I do not know how to explain that independence looks different for her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The universal desire for autonomy meets the reality of lifelong interdependence, requiring new definitions of freedom and success.

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