"Good" and "bad" are incomplete stories we tell ourselves | Heather Lanier
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”Good” and ”bad” are incomplete stories we tell ourselves | Heather Lanier

2017-12-21
Heather Lanier's daughter Fiona has Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, a genetic condition that results in developmental delays -- but that doesn't make her tragic, angelic or any of the other stereotypes about kids like her. In this talk about the beautiful, complicated, joyful and hard journey of raising a rare girl, Lanier questions our assumptions about what makes a life "good" or "bad", challenging us to stop fixating on solutions for whatever we deem not normal, and instead to take life as it comes....
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