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Excellent and really personal post from prior poster because for some the aspect of providing care for a son or daughter with a disability does not end at age 18, 21 or 39, and it is important to keep a personal sense of self and life perspective at any age.   The hardest thing is that there is no path to follow in such a circumstance and you grow to be grateful to those who are in your younger, teen or adult child's life.  For us it is the wonderful college students who have done weekly and summer activities with her year-round, her young piano teacher who has understood how making her way through a selection is hard mental work and yet very satisfying to her.  Then there is the Aramark Dining Hall which has employed her part-time for 17 years and enabled her to return to her job in the dish room after an 18-month hiatus due to her disability with fewer hours to suit her stamina.  There is the senior center in our community where she thrives as a weekly volunteer covering the tables of a coffee cafe located there.  There are the community programs of Therapeutic Recreation, Special Olympics and Best Buddies which also give her social and recreation outlets. These are all aspects for her of a full lifestyle and for us a supportive network in raising her.[/quote]

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