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This week’s blogging group question, “Do some comments bother you, or do you understand them as a lack of knowledge on diversity?”

We don’t receive many comments at all that bother us. As in people don’t really say things to us that might make us feel bothered. If ever there is one, and we come away feeling down or deflated or maybe embarrassed, then all we need to do is go and sit with that emotion, and feel the place our mind has gone to. It’s OK if the mind goes there.

We then need to come back to what we know and believe. Our purpose is to love ourselves unconditionally and to love Coraline unconditionally and to live our life in the world that way. It really comes back to us and what we think. I think the real trick is to be in the presence of the comment, to maybe feel however it makes us feel, but to quickly come back to what we know is true.

Understanding changes comments. If we are out and Coraline maybe has sensory issues or behaviours, we can just share that we too as her parents are learning and understanding. We can just keep being ourselves, keep shining our light and that is the best we can do in this world.

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