This movie touched my heart because I have also experienced the long job search, people thinking that I could not do the jobs, never calling me back, trying everything at the interviews from not addressing the fact that I had an interpreter sitting there with me to attempting to educate them… and so on and so on.

I also, as the parent of a daughter that has an (invisible and difficult to detect) special need, have experienced having to fight with the schools to ensure my child got what she needed to be able to learn, stay safe, and grow. To all the parents out there, remember, YOU are their parent, YOU know them best, even if you don’t run a school and even if you don’t have a degree in childhood education!

As the parent of a son who was born with treatable birth anomalies, I have had the privilege of seeing how challenges change a person and teach a person that sometimes you just have to accept the things that you can not change, but, in the words of my son, “getting all mad and angry about it isn’t going to make me not need to have this surgery, it isn’t going to make it go away, so why should I waste my energy on being mad when I can use my energy on a lot more fun things to do?” (when he was facing his 11th surgery at the age of 10, after being asked my his father, “doesn’t it just make you MAD that you have to go through all of this and other kids don’t?”

Thank you.

I loved the movie and thank you so much for your book too – my 8 year old son has TS and he watched some of the movie (it was on late here on a school night) and he was surprised to know it was a true story and that there really are other people in the world that tic.