Every Day: Shifting the Narrative
Posted: May 2, 2013 Filed under: advocacy, Down syndrome, the future | Tags: advocacy, Down syndrome, Robert Ethan Saylor, Special Needs, Zero Dark Thirty 16 CommentsDown Syndrome Uprising (DSU) is hosting a blog hop about every day advocacy. The question DSU poses is: What does your every day advocacy look like? For me, it is about shifting the narrative. Every day, every single one of us participates in a collective narrative. Every word we choose becomes part of this narrative. The idea of being an advocate doesn’t come naturally to me; LP had to shove me into that role. Nonetheless, now that I’m here, I’m having a hard time shutting up.
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