Every parent of a child with special needs knows the moment the horizon shifts. The plans you had quietly drawn up are folded away, and something unfamiliar takes their place.
But horizons are not walls. Over the last fifteen years we have watched families discover possibilities they had never been told to expect — a first sentence at nine, a first wage at twenty-two, a first friendship that was chosen rather than arranged.
This is written for every parent still standing at the edge of the old horizon, wondering what is on the other side. There is more there than you have been promised.
