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One of my friends has a daughter with microcephaly. Recently on Facebook she shared that when her daughter was a newborn, she worried a lot about how other people would respond to her. Then one day a woman in the grocery store looked at her baby and smiled at my friend. She said, "Your baby is beautiful. Would you mind sharing her story with me?" I thought that was such a beautiful and respectful way for someone to address the baby's obvious differences in a way that was respectful and uplifting. What other ways do you think people could approach a child/parent of a child with special needs?
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What a wonderful way for the woman in the grocery store to go about it! I think it's really important to not talk about the child as if they aren't there. Just because a child has special needs doesn't mean they're not aware that you are talking to them like they're not a person.
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