Boy, this touches a bit close here. My liberal neighbors have a child who has CP. She was premature (22 or 23 weeks). She has to walk in orthotics and she's had a few eye surgeries. I think she may be partially on the autism scale now, but the whole family is a bit socially awkward so hard to tell. Though liberal, I don't think they have much of a mean spirit when push comes to shove.
However, all things said, she's a PRIME reason that I cannot understand why they are still voting Marxist. Their "Marxist" leaders would have her aborted and tossed. Yet, she's actually quite smart and reads, say in a three months, more books than I've read
for enjoyment in my life. She's been doing this since I met them almost 8 years ago. She's going into 7th grade.
Her biggest roadblock...her parents. Those that held the kids hostage at COVID for 2 years. So they have, again, zero social skills. Those who seem to not encourage friendships or who run their friends off (hard to tell).
If ANYBODY can look me straight in the eye and tell me "22 or 23 weeks isn't a viable child", I point to her. Does she have issues...yes. I think I actually offended them one day when I said...I don't perceive her to be handicapped. AKA, that's not what defines her. Yes, she cannot walk well, yes, she seems to have some "spectrum" symptoms, but all in all, she's no more F'd up than 95% of people are. Too bad they don't get her into something like fishing, target shooting, stuff like that where lower body physical ability is mostly wiped out.
Yes, I have had my disagreements with them many times about marxism vs Constitutionalism; however, when I ended up with the 'Rona...who were the ones that brought me eggs? Volunteered their propane? Not my conservative neighbors... (which still kind of irks me). But, they gave the child a chance and she's doing pretty damn well considering the cards were totally stacked against her. Youngest premature baby to live in this state at that time.
Or better yet, look at those Shriners commercials. Sure, they hand pick the ones on camera; but all the ones I've seen sound more intelligent than 75% of the people I deal with weekly.
Good luck and God bless you!!