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When your child expresses suicidal thoughts about their disability

My teenage son with Asperger's told me he wishes he was never born because being different is too hard and I did not know what to say because some days I wonder if bringing him into this world was cruel.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The child's despair about their place in the world reflects back the parent's deepest fears about the suffering inherent in difference.

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