I am one of the two.๐งต about how #ActuallyAutistic folk process grief:
๐ฆ https://twitter.com/mykola/status/1516057830310256642
(this is a re-post of the most important Twitter thread I wrote)
pregnancy complications
there is an addendum to the original Twitter thread, which i want to re-write before bringing over. and i'm spent from migrating over the "main" thread tonight. thank you for reading.
pregnancy complications
A couple of weeks later we learned that the baby has a terminal genetic, but not inherited, defect. At best we should expect days with her, but most don't survive hours.
We buy thin ceramic plates at a thrift store, write "Trisomy 18" on them, and smash the plates in helpless rage.
We lived in Phoenix at the time. We had moved to AZ because we love the desert. But our new community there was not ready to carry us through this. So we moved back to Ohio.