I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability. It is like this. 1 you are going to have a baby, it"s like preparing a vacation trip to Italy. You 2 a bunch of guidebooks and make wonderful 3 You may learn some useful phrases 4 Italian. It"s all very exciting. 5 several months of eager expectation, the day finally 6 You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours 7 , the plane lands in Holland. "Why Holland" you say. "I sign up 8 Italy! All my life I"ve dreamed 9 going to Italy." But you have landed in Holland and 10 you must stay.
The important thing is to remember that they haven"t taken you 11 a horrible, disgusting, filthy place. It"s just a 12 place. So you go out and buy new guidebooks 13 you must learn a whole new language. Holland may be slower-paced 14 Italy. But after you have been there for a while, you 15 that Holland has windmills and tulips(郁金香). Everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy, and they are all boasting about 16 a wonderful time they had there. And for the 17 of your life you will say, "Yes, that"s where I was 18 to go". But if you spend your life 19 the fact that you didn"t get to Italy, you may never be free to 20 the very special, the very lovely things about Holland.