Jill mentioned the Boy Alone memoir by Karl Taro Greenfield, and that some of the comments left on the NPR site berated Greenfield for selfishness and lack of empathy when discussing his special-needs sibling.

Yet even a special-needs parent doesn’t face the Everest of most sibs. Don Meyer, Washington state-based pioneer of the contemporary sibshop model, has noted that some of these siblings will be in the lives of and overseeing care of special-needs brothers and sisters for as much as 70 years. Seventy years. No one who doesn’t face such a thing has any right, I think, to open their …read more