The belief that women with disabilities are inherently unfit to become mothers has endured for centuries. I am 35 years old, unmarried, and childless. For most women my age, this would mean incessant pressure to reproduce and regular reminders that the “clock is ticking.” But I have never experienced any of this. And while I […]
Mothers with ADHD are frequently bad at the very things that women are stereotypically supposed to be good at. In most of the ways that matter, my friend Karen was a wonderful parent. She loved her children and demonstrated it daily. She hugged them, played with them, and read to them. She was neither permissive […]
This originally appeared on The Manifest-Station. Republished here with permission. I realized that I didn’t want a child for the rest of his or her life, I wanted a child to take away my loneliness, my emptiness…for a month or two. He was a spiritual advisor/therapist of sorts. More like a healer/shaman. I had known […]
