🟢 "YOUR CHILD IS A PERSON FIRST, NOT A MEDICAL CONDITION." In this first of two episodes, Jodi is brutally honest about the challenges she faced...

• coming to terms with her daughter’s diagnosis of Down's syndrome ("Trisomy 21": 3 copies of chromosome 21 instead of the usual 2, thought to occur in 1 in 800 infants);

• dealing with seemingly endless stream of negative information shortly after birth

• and lack of positive information how children with Down's can live happy, increasingly healthy long lives.

You'll also hear about

• how Jodi came to accept and embrace her daughter's differences and strengths;

• her skepticism of "performative kindness" that can mask the absence of real, meaningful action;

• and - facing the reality of socia ...