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Why visible medical needs create social exclusion

My extended family stopped inviting us to gatherings because our daughter's feeding tube makes them uncomfortable and now we spend holidays alone.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Family discomfort with medical difference results in abandonment disguised as consideration.

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