Grace

When people come out of the womb with a genetic difference such as Down Syndrome, they are granted the grace to break the norm in whatever they’re doing and communicate through how they process the world. I came out of the womb with bad brain chemistry that then had chronic trauma added to it. But because I look like most people I am obligated to behave within societal norms and meet everyone’s expectations while translating how I process the world into perfectly understandable normal people language. I’m not asking to have been born any other way than I was – I just wish I were granted some grace to be acceptable as me.