Or I could be totally wrong…but I hope so.

(Found you a year or 2 ago on hopefulparents.org and always enjoy your posts and blog!)

Carrie T.

I cried reading this. My twins will face this just by them being twins. At 4, Jack has already told me he’ll never be as fast as Alex. It’s true; I can’t catch a full-speed Alex because he is a natural runner. But I don’t need 2 Alexes. I need a Jack and an Alex.

As a teacher, I struggle with this as well. I want to give mods and also give help and support without holding a huge neon sign above their heads. It’s so tough.

I recently talked to a good friend’s son, who was having those kinds of feelings (although he does not have a physical condition that makes things worse), and he seemed to really be able to hear me in a way that he couldn’t hear his mom — I told him how wonderful he is, and how everybody goes through patches of feeling this way. Sometimes it’s easier to hear from an older peer or from an adult who’s not your parent. If there’s somebody like that in Quinn’s life (and I’m sure there is), maybe she would benefit from talking to that person about it all.