Something went wrong just before my friend Will was born, in a small city in the midwest, in the mid 1960s. The most likely cause: a mild prenatal stroke. It did not cause enough damage to be immediately apparent; it took time before his parents realized that there was something amiss with their youngest child.
As a parent of a child with significant learning disabilities, it's hard for me to be too judgemental about parental response to discovering "there's something wrong with my child". It's hard to explain what kind of fear and grief that revelation brings. Still - I cannot begin to understand what Will's parents did next: they sent their five year old over a thousand miles away to a boarding school for emotionally and behaviorally troubled children.
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