Parenting Series: How One’s Perspective Can Change Given The Right Circumstances

Happy Taco Tuesday everyone! Thank you for the continued support you have shown over the past few weeks. Today will be the third in a series about parenting with a disability. I did not intend for this topic to be a series of blogs but the topic keeps finding relevance in my life and I hope to continue to impact others as well. 

I began writing about parenting with a disability a decade ago. The first blog was entitled "Who Says We Can't Have A Family". Who Says We Can't Have A Family  Two years later I wrote a second blog entitled “Parenthood & Me”. Parenthood & Me 

If you read both blogs, you may be a little confused. I sound like a rolling contradiction (: Both of these blogs were written while I was single as a pringle. In the first blog, I had a positive outlook on having a biological child. In the second blog, I said something to the effect of after thinking about it I would be doing a disservice to a young child, and I stated that I thought it would be more appropriate if I adopted an older child. Well, eight years have passed since I wrote the second blog and by some strange facet of the universe, or as I like to call it God’s Divine Plan, I am no longer single as a pringle. I have been lucky enough to capture a little space alien named Samantha “Elizabeth” Lebron. Her middle name is not actually Elizabeth. I just gave it to her because she looks just as beautiful as Elizabeth Taylor. (I know Samantha you hate your imposed middle name, but oh well I guess you will have to give me one soon.) Back to my point.  A lot has changed. I now have someone I want to build a life with and hopefully have a child or multiple children with. With that in mind my views on children haven’t changed; they have just gained some perspective. While I continue to believe adoption is still an option, and there a lot of kids out there who need a good home regardless of whether they are disabled or not, my desire to have biological children is stronger now than it has ever been. 

In closing in the first blog, I said that I did not know much about assistive technology for taking care of a child when you are a parent that has a disability. Since the purpose of this blog serves as a resource for everyone as well as to inform people about what living with a disability entails, I plan on researching assistive devices and equipment further and will be writing a fourth blog on parenting with a disability in the future.

Enjoy your Taco Tuesday and come back tomorrow for another interesting blog post from The Voiceless Minority.  

P.S. If anyone has any ideas for upcoming blog posts or wants to be a guest writer please leave a comment below or contact me via email at jasonhahr@gmail.com

Your Friendly Neighborhood Super Advocate, 

Jay