The Long Road to Happy: A Sister's Journey Through Her Brother's Disabilities - Paperback

If parents of the disabled find their family experiences rarely acknowledged, siblings often feel invisible--even to their own parents. In this frank and personal story, a family is changed with the arrival of a son--not because their father finally has the boy he always wanted but because it's soon clear David has severe intellectual disabilities. To his death, their father would insist David had nothing that couldn't be fixed by better parenting. And only years later, would the author realize how utterly alone her mom had for so long felt-- and how she worried about what would become of the son she loved so dearly after she was gone. With her passing, the care of David falls to the author. This was not a role she sought nor wanted. Indeed, she had always blamed her brother for the motherly love denied her after his birth. There was no road map for the journey Diane and David were about to start. But maybe there should be. This is the story of their long road to happy.