Friday 05 September 2008

Living with a physical deformity

Poor Charles. We have teased so much about making big blue eyes at people to get his way that he told me the other day that he wanted to change out his blue eyes for brown, because “blue was the wrong color”. After some probing, I discovered that blue was wrong because it made us talk about Charles’ “big blue marbles”. Naturally, I reacted by suggesting that we dress Charles up as a big blue eye for Halloween. I don’t think that was as comforting as Charles might have liked. Even pointing out that Mom suffers from the same problem but has (for the most part) been able to live a normal life was ineffective. Oh well, overcoming challenges build character!

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