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When your disabled child asks hard questions about their future

My teenage daughter with cerebral palsy asked me if boys will ever like her and I said of course they will but I do not actually know if that is true and I hate that I lied to her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The desire to protect hope collides with the honesty that trust requires, leaving parents suspended between comfort and truth.

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