“The gate is closing in four minutes, ma’am,” an airline representative said to me as I sat on the floor with Wil. “Yes, thank you,” I said. “I just can’t get him up.
I’m trying.” I saw my son Wil, who is 13 years old and has Down syndrome, falling apart about 30 minutes prior to the airline representative’s four-minute gate closing alert.
When it started in his mind, I can’t tell you. The physical signs of his shoulders beginning to slump as he muttered to himself were my cues that things were going downhill within him.
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