welcome to holland by emily perl kingsley hi. i am often asked to describe the experience of raising...
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Welcome to
Hollandby Emily Perl Kingsley
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I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a
disability ……
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…. to try to help people who have not shared that
unique experience to understand it, to imagine
how it would feel.
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It's like this......
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When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy.
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You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans.
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The gondolas in
Venice.
The Michelangelo David.
The Coliseum.
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You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.
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After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives.
You pack your bags and off you go.
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Several hours later, the plane lands.
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The stewardess
comes in and says, "Welcome
to Holland."
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"Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland??
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I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy."
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But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in
Holland and there you must stay.
Hi
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The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting,
filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place.
HiHello
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So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a
whole new language.
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And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.
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It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy,
less flashy than Italy.
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But after you've been there for a while and
you catch your breath, you look around....
…and you begin to notice…
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Holland even has
Rembrandts.
and Holland has tulips…
That Holland has
windmills…
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But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy...
HiHello
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But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy...
and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there.
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And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed
to go. That's what I had planned."
And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very, very significant loss.
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But... if you spend your life
mourning the fact that you didn't
get to Italy,
But... if you spend your life
mourning the fact that you didn't
get to Italy,
you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the
very lovely things
But... if you spend your life
mourning the fact that you didn't
get to Italy,
you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the
very lovely things
... about Holland.
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Our very special thanks to the author
Emily Perl Kingsley
... also known as “Jason’s mom”
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by the staff of Central Florida Parent Center, the Parent Training and Information Center
for central and northeast Florida.
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